ppl. a. Chiefly north. and Sc. [UN-1 8 b.]
† 1. Undirected, untaught. Obs.–0
1570. Levins, Manip., 67. Vnkent, untaught, incorrectus.
2. Unknown. (Cf. UNKENNED ppl. a. 1.)
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., To his Bk. i. Goe little booke: thy selfe present, As child whose parent is vnkent.
1613. W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. i. I … sought [not] for bay,… But as a Swaine unkent fed on the plaines.
1647. Trapp, Comm., 1 John iii. 1. Princes unknown are unrespected; Unkent, unkist, as the Northern Proverb hath it.
1790. A. Shirrefs, Poems, 174. Unkent to a’,… Ae night I bade the cruel place adieu.
1807–. in dialect use (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
