Obs. [UN-1 13.]
1. Lack of knowledge; ignorance.
1382. Wyclif, Acts iii. 17. I woot that by vnwittinge [L. ignorantiam] ȝe diden, as and ȝoure princes.
1620. T. Granger, Div. Logike, 34. The involuntarie vnwitting causeth, or effecteth a thing being ignorant thereof.
2. Unsoundness of mind; insanity.
1527. Andrew, Brunswyke’s Distyll. Waters, xvi. B. ij. [Borage-] water … is good agaynst madnes or vnwytyng [G. unsynnigkeit] and melancolye.
