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disacknowledged

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disacknowledge.

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Examples

  • Ironically, I suspect, beneath many assertions of a purely representative function to narrative lurks a disacknowledged recognition of that coupling of expressive and manipulative functions, a brooding resentment that the established protocols -- the politieness principles -- for these transactions of import and purpose have been disregarded.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • Ironically, I suspect, beneath many assertions of a purely representative function to narrative lurks a disacknowledged recognition of that coupling of expressive and manipulative functions, a brooding resentment that the established protocols -- the politieness principles -- for these transactions of import and purpose have been disregarded.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2) Hal Duncan 2008

  • This is where failure becomes a matter of not mapping enough of yourself to the story, I think, where those absences and blind spots paradoxically function as negative spaces which continue to define the story largely in terms of your personal psychology, the disacknowledged aspects of it.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • This is where failure becomes a matter of not mapping enough of yourself to the story, I think, where those absences and blind spots paradoxically function as negative spaces which continue to define the story largely in terms of your personal psychology, the disacknowledged aspects of it.

    Magic 101 Hal Duncan 2006

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  • The criminal (whose actions have really been determined by the society around him) is cast out, disacknowledged, and condemned to further isolation in a prison cell.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • I mourned for thy sake that thou wert not the dullest wench in the land, for then thou hadst been spared thy miseries, thou hadst been saved the torture-boot of a lost love and a disacknowledged wifedom.

    Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People" Gilbert Parker 1897

  • I mourned for thy sake that thou wert not the dullest wench in the land, for then thou hadst been spared thy miseries, thou hadst been saved the torture-boot of a lost love and a disacknowledged wifedom.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • I mourned for thy sake that thou wert not the dullest wench in the land, for then thou hadst been spared thy miseries, thou hadst been saved the torture-boot of a lost love and a disacknowledged wifedom.

    Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v4 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The criminal (whose actions have really been determined by the society around him) is cast out, disacknowledged, and condemned to further isolation in a prison cell.

    Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Edward Carpenter 1886

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