unavowable
- a word derived from avow.
Example Sentences
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No humility awoke in her; she felt the stirring of envies, avidities, unavowable passions, and let them flourish unrebuked.
From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George
It was the duchess—she, the mysterious being in whom all the splendours of the unknown were united; she who had occasioned him so many unavowable dreams; she who had written him so strange a letter!
From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor
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 Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
"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 Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
Subsidence of physical suffering allowed her to forget this emotion, in its nature unavowable.
From Born in Exile by Gissing, George
