All 3 Uses
unwitting
in
The Namesake
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- Often in one's infancy, one answers unwittingly to dozens of pet names, until one eventually sticks.†
Chpt 2 *unwittingly = without knowledge or intent
- He wonders how many times they've crossed paths, how many meals they've unwittingly shared in Commons.†
Chpt 5
- And suddenly the sound of his pet name, uttered by his father as he has been accustomed to hearing it all his life, means something completely new, bound up with a catastrophe he has unwittingly embodied for years.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(unwitting) without knowledge or intent
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)