a. Obs. Also 3–4 onekeþ, 4–5 unkythe. [var. ME. uncoth: see UNCOUTH a. and cf. UNKED.] Unknown, strange.
a. 1275. Prov. Ælfred, 535, in O. E. Misc., 133. Elde cumid to tune, mid fele unkeþe costes.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 6758. Mid lute onekeþ folc to engelond he drou.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 3325. Weikenes of wemen may not wele stryve,… And nomely in an unkythe lond nedys hom so.
c. 1510. Lytell Geste Robyn Hode, 24 (W. de W.). To dine I have no lust, Till I have some bold Baron, Or some unketh guest.
1577. Holinshed, Chron., Hist. Scotland, I. 297/1. Many strange wonders and vnketh sightes were seen in the dayes of this Alexander the thyrde.
Hence † Unkethness. Obs.
1564. Haward, trans. Eutropius, X. 108. This unkethenesse of passinge greate good fortune, and successe in his affairs.
