half-admitted
- a word derived from admitted.
Example Sentences
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He was acutely conscious of his only half-admitted reason for this visit.
From A Lost Leader by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Only since he had secretly half-admitted his vulnerability, had he thrown such an anchor to windward, and all his policies were new—too new to hold validity against self-destruction.
From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville
A half-admitted, intoxicating sense of imminent action possessed him; and as he walked forward it seemed that he scarcely felt the ground beneath his feet.
From The Gambler A Novel by Thurston, Katherine Cecil
The borrowed plumes, the delegated authority of so many of his equals, raise him to a half-admitted equality with an English nobleman.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
Aaron waited in his shed, his bowels stirred with violent but only half-admitted emotions.
From Aaron's Rod by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
