recognize
verb (used with object)
to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc..
unrecognizing
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a word derived from
recognize.
Example Sentences
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The moon, sailing high in the zenith, cast no light beneath the porch's roof, and von Rittenheim stood unrecognizing.
From A Tar-Heel Baron by Edward Stratton Holloway
Robbie surveyed them gravely, unrecognizing any of the older guests until presently one face stood out vaguely familiar in the clear twilight.
From Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls by Julia Augusta Schwartz
Tall fair men were beginning to complain of her unrecognizing manner.
From Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) by Mary Cholmondeley
There was no warmth of encouragement, either in her tone of voice or the unrecognizing eye which she turned upon him without trace of sympathy.
From Sally Bishop A Romance by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston
Hast thou not long ago appeared, veiled in an allegory, before an unrecognizing world?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
