unknow

verb

unknow

verb

Etymology From un- + know.

1

To undo the process of knowing; to lose knowledge of something.

  • To awaken the conscious self to the principle of the whole or Tao one needs to forget oneself, so that in knowing one unknows.2004, William Joseph Jackson, Heaven's fractal net: retrieving lost visions in the humanities: Volume 1, page 205:
  • You clearly care about this employee’s well-being and want to be supportive. Even though you can’t unknow what you saw on TikTok, this is not your problem to solve.2023 February 3, Roxane Gay, “My Co-Worker’s Baby Photo Gallery Put Me Over the Edge”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

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