avowed
adjective
acknowledged; declared.
unavowed
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a word derived from
avowed.
Example Sentences
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In his plays, the previously unmentionable was said; the formerly unavowed, acknowledged.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chirac's candidate, incumbent Assembly President Edgar Faure, 69, was pitted against Giscard's unavowed but clear choice, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 63.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of them appeared to be the centre of their interest, a man, lean and pallid-looking, with hollow purple-rimmed eyes, that spoke of night vigils or mayhap of unavowed, consuming thoughts.
From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
But here again the first step of the forthcoming ruler was taken in obedience to an irresistible, though, perhaps, unavowed, national suggestion.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 by Various
Then something happened which quite curiously quickened Godfrey Pavely's unavowed feeling for Katty.
From Love and hatred by Marie Belloc Lowndes
