[UN-1 12. Cf. OE. unwísness ignorance.] Lack or absence of practical wisdom; foolishness, folly, imprudence.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter lxviii. 7. God þou wate myn vnwisnes.
1807. Monthly Mag., XXIV. 331. An unwiseness, which would not be expected from his sagacity.
1859. Thulia S. Henderson, Mem. E. Henderson, iv. 200. Though well aware how much depended on the wiseness or unwiseness of the means he might employ.
1887. Anne Elliote, Old Man’s Favour, I. II. ii. 208. The worthy merchant admitted the unwiseness of that cheque.
