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Knowed vs Knowen - What's the difference?

knowed | knowen |

As verbs the difference between knowed and knowen

is that knowed is (nonstandard) alternative form of knew while knowen is (archaic).

knowed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nonstandard) Alternative form of knew.
  • (nonstandard) (know)
  • * 1853 ,
    • Is made more imbecile by being constantly informed that Mrs. Green’s son “was a law-writer his-self and knowed him better than anybody,” which son of Mrs. Green’s appears, on inquiry, to be at the present time aboard a vessel bound for China, three months out, but considered accessible by telegraph on application to the Lords of the Admiralty.
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII
    • I was pretty tired, and the first thing I knowed I was asleep.
  • * 1962 ,
    • And it ain't no use in light babe: the light I never knowed.

    knowen

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic)
    • and it is vulgarly well knowen that thornes signifie stinging and pricking cares. — King James VI and I

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