ppl. a. Now arch. [UN-1 8. Cf. OE. unʓe-, unwéned.] Not thought of or imagined; unexpected.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boeth., IV. pr. vi. (1868), 139. What so euer þou mayst seen þat is don in þis world vnhoped or vnwened.

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1813.  Hogg, Queen’s Wake, 85. The night unweened had passed away, And dawning ushered in the day.

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1894.  F. S. Ellis, Reynard the Fox, 194. When one weens no thing at all, The thing unweened will straight befal.

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