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ignorant (s.xii1/4)

ignorant (s.xii1/4)

ignoraunt; 
pl. ignorans,  ignoranz  
  FEW:  ignorare 4,542b Gdf: GdfC:  ignorant 9,781b TL: ignorant 4,1299 DEAF:  ignorer I52 DMF:  ignorant  TLF:  ignorant  OED:  ignorant adj. and n.  MED:  ignoraunt adj. and n.  DMLBS:

a.

ignorant, without knowledge or education
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  C'est le beivre dunt e[n]iverez Serunt e trestuz afolez, Dunt il serrunt ignoraunt Ke ne saverunt ariere ne avaunt  Lum Lais ANTS 13059
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  Dieu mesconuz, le quel vous ignorauntz ahourez (=worship)  Actes (B) 210c
(estre) ignorant a, de
(to be) ignorant, without knowledge of
( 1230-53 )  Kant nature naturante (=creative nature, the Creator) A nature est ignorante  Chast Amour 868
( 1292-93 )  Wyliame e Isolde se mistrent de tout en tout cum gens ignorans de la ley  Sel Bills Eyre 69
( 1317 )  [...] et qe fut ignoraunte de cele precontrat  YBB Ed II xxii 262
( 1481 )  celuy que est de pleine age n’est ignoraunt de son title  Readings i 161.2
estre ignorant a (+inf.)
to not know how to (+ inf.)
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  uncore siu [sic] jeo trop ignorant a moustrer a droit et apertement mes defautes et les ordures qe sont privément muscees et enclos dedeinz mon coer  Sz Med1 86

s.

ignorant, one who is without knowledge or education
( s.xii1/4; MS: c.1120 ) Kar iço que la scripture aprestet as lisanz, iço aprestet la painture as ignoranz  S Greg Lett 299

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See also:

ignorance 
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