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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As Mrs. Sancy pronounced the last sentence, she seemed for the moment to have forgotten my presence, and stood, looking off over the calm grey sea, with absent unrecognizing gaze.
From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Frances Fuller Victor
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
The Elder took his seat and glanced round upon them all with solemn unrecognizing severity, while the mourners came down the creaking pine stairway in proper order of procedure.
From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland
"With slight unrecognizing salutation they passed me; plunged down amid the neighboring thickets, onward, to Heaven, and to England; and I, in my friend Richter's words, I remained alone, behind them, with the Night!"
From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various
Benjamin stared at him with wide, unrecognizing eyes.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
