Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unwonted; unaccustomed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Archaic Unwonted; unused; unaccustomed.

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  • adjective archaic unwonted; unused; unaccustomed

Etymologies

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un- +‎ wont

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Examples

  • But she laughed, and turning a little, pointed to the castle, and said: Nay, sweet lords, but I will fare afoot, such a little way as it is, and I all unwont to the saddle.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • "I knew what you was after," said the redbeard, unwont-edly low, "but I'd stopped thinking you'd ever find it."

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • "I knew what you was after," said the redbeard, unwont-edly low, "but I'd stopped thinking you'd ever find it."

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

  • I am unwont to praise when praise is not merited; and I here most unavowedly express my firm opinion and conviction, that no troops in any battle on record ever behaved more nobly; – British and native, no distinction; cavalry, all vying with H. M.'s 16th Lancers, and striving to head in the repeated charges.

    The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

  • But she laughed, and turning a little, pointed to the castle, and said: Nay, sweet lords, but I will fare afoot, such a little way as it is, and I all unwont to the saddle.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865

  • The son of Scotland, too, is here, although unwont to grace such gatherings with his presence; yet this is an event of rare importance, and from its occurrence in his immediate neighbourhood, he has come, we dare not say to scoff, and yet about his expressive mouth their lingers a slight curl of something like it.

    Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America Frederick 1845

  • Idris saw me: with light step she advanced; as I folded her in my arms, feeling, as I did, that I thus enclosed what was to me a world, yet frail as the waterdrop which the noon-day sun will drink from the water lily's cup; tears filled my eyes, unwont to be thus moistened.

    II.6 1826

  • Idris saw me: with light step she advanced; as I folded her in my arms, feeling, as I did, that I thus enclosed what was to me a world, yet frail as the waterdrop which the noon-day sun will drink from the water lily's cup; tears filled my eyes, unwont to be thus moistened.

    The Last Man 1826

  • I folded her in my arms, feeling, as I did, that I thus enclosed what was to me a world, yet frail as the waterdrop which the noon-day sun will drink from the water lily's cup; tears filled my eyes, unwont to be thus moistened.

    The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824

  • Titian, indeed, may be said to have first opened his eyes to the mysteries of nature; but they were no sooner opened, than he rushed into them with a rapidity and daring unwont to the more cautious spirit of his master; and, though irregular, eccentric, and often inferior, yet sometimes he made his way to poetical regions, of whose celestial hues even Titian himself had never dreamt.

    Lectures on Art Washington Allston 1811

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