unknow

English

Etymology

un- +‎ know

Verb

unknow (third-person singular simple present unknows, present participle unknowing, simple past unknew, past participle unknown)

  1. To undo the process of knowing, to lose knowledge of something.
    • 2004, William Joseph Jackson, Heaven's fractal net: retrieving lost visions in the humanities: Volume 1 (page 205)
      To awaken the conscious self to the principle of the whole or Tao one needs to forget oneself, so that in knowing one unknows.
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