cunning

1) Skilled, knowledgeable or experienced, not a pejorative adjective in early contexts.

1449 a kunnyng prest to synge for my soule, Westmorland

1505 one of the mynstralls ... is knawen right connyng, York. The prevailing modern sense dates only from the late sixteenth century.

places York
dates 1449 1505

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