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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

In his plays, the previously unmentionable was said; the formerly unavowed, acknowledged.

From Time Magazine Archive

By′-lane, a side lane or passage out of the common road; By′-mō′tive, an unavowed motive; By′name, a nickname; By′-pass′age, a side passage.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

They did not offer each other of their casks, they simply cast sympathetic glances, seized with the unavowed desire to taste their neighbor's liquor, which might possibly be better.

From The Fête At Coqueville 1907 by Meyer, L. G.

When diplomatic relations were broken off, and war was finally declared, Germany was already the unavowed protectress of Russia.

From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris