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# unwittingly

«unwittingly» in Mova's school dictionary: **without knowing, by accident, not on purpose** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (unwittingly)

### meaning for a pupil

Unwittingly means without knowing, by accident, not on purpose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unwittingly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a character does a thing by mistake and only later finds out what it has caused

### examples

- It so happened that unwittingly he took a wrong road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unwittingly/#x1)
- Again his wife gives them away unwittingly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unwittingly/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unwittingly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unwittingly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.