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Unknowing vs Unknow - What's the difference?

unknowing | unknow |

As an adjective unknowing

is without knowing; ignorant.

As a verb unknow is

to undo the process of knowing, to lose knowledge of something.

unknowing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Without knowing; ignorant.
  • (obsolete) Unknown, unbeknownst ((to) someone).
  • *1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke II:
  • *:And when they had fulfilled the dayes, as they returned home, the chylde Jesus boode styll in hierusalem, vnknowinge to his father and mother.

    • unknow

    English

    Verb

  • To undo the process of knowing, to lose knowledge of something.
  • * 2004 , William Joseph Jackson, Heaven's fractal net: retrieving lost visions in the humanities: Volume 1 (page 205)
    • To awaken the conscious self to the principle of the whole or Tao one needs to forget oneself, so that in knowing one unknows .