avow
verb (used with object)
unavowable
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a word derived from
avow.
Example Sentences
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The real motives of every declaration of war are unavowed and unavowable.
From Essays in Rebellion by Henry W. Nevinson
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
"But how? . . . how?" she reiterated, puzzled, anxious, scenting some nefarious scheme more unavowable even than the last.
From The Nest of the Sparrowhawk by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Subsidence of physical suffering allowed her to forget this emotion, in its nature unavowable.
From Born in Exile by George Gissing
They were, as it were, his subordinates; without their help he never could have carried on his unavowable profession quite so successfully.
From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
