Now arch. [UN-1 12. Cf. OE. unwærness.] Unwariness, incautiousness.
1388. Wyclif, Prov. xiv. 8. The vnwarnesse of foolis errith.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 445. Þis vnwarnes of wit wrixlis hys mynd.
1436. Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 190. Be ware of Walys, Criste Jhesu mutt us kepe, That it make not [us] … to wepe,… if it go his waye By unwarenesse.
1509. Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1570), 25. But when he had obteyned great honours,… Then his vnwarenes caused him to wayle.
1544. Betham, Precepts War, II. xliv. L j. The defaulte can not be escaped ne holpen, and al through thyne vnwarenesse.
1899. T. Hardy, Wessex Poems, 97. [She’ll think] That my words were not unwareness, but deceit of her.
