recognize
verb (used with object)
to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc..
unrecognizing
-
a word derived from
recognize.
Example Sentences
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Primrose eyed the sparks which flew up chimney, with an unrecognizing face.
From The Gold of Chickaree by Susan Warner
Undine at length shrank back with an unrecognizing face; but her movement made her opera-glass slip to the floor, and her neighbour bent down and picked it up.
From The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Benjamin stared at him with wide, unrecognizing eyes.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
The boys stared at the elegant young lady in mourning, and even her mother gazed for one moment with grave, unrecognizing scrutiny.
From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Holme Lee
That first, best occasion has passed, and the unrecognized, unrecognizing Envoy has given offence, and not comfort, by a presence that seemed constantly to say, I do not think you can sustain yourselves.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
