unwont
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unwont (comparative more unwont, superlative most unwont)
- (archaic) unwonted; unused; unaccustomed
- 1829 May 2, [Walter Scott], Anne of Geierstein; or, The Maiden of the Mist. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Cadell and Co., […]; London: Simpkin and Marshall, […], →OCLC:
- I am unwont to press my favours, or to deal with priests who require entreaty, when gifts are held out to them.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unwont”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)