avow
verb (used with object)
unavowable
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a word derived from
avow.
Example Sentences
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Why, then, had he been conscious of a sub-emotion, quite unavowable, which contradicted his indignant sympathy during that talk last night in the street?
From Will Warburton by George Gissing
Over the sea it hung heavy and dank like a huge sheet of gray thrown over things secret and unavowable.
From The Nest of the Sparrowhawk by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Not a sound now disturbed the stillness of the night save when a bat fluttered overhead, or when furtive footsteps—on unavowable errand bent—glided softly off the beaten track and quickly died away among the shadows.
From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The curtains were drawn, and the warm friendly aspect of the room smote him like that of a familiar face met during an unavowable errand.
From The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
"Well, now, tell me," he said, with that bland patience which had so oft served him in good stead in his unavowable profession.
From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
