Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not avowed or openly acknowledged: as, unavowed dislike.

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  • adjective Not avowed.

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  • adjective not affirmed or mentioned or declared
  • adjective not openly expressed
  • adjective not openly made known

Etymologies

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un- +‎ avowed

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Examples

  • The chief executive of Caterpillar, an unavowed fan of Cinquecento garden design, wants to create for his palatial mansion located just outside of his company's world headquarters in Peoria, Illinois, a replica of the gardens of Villa D'Este, an exact copy, in fact, except that it will be planted with native vegetation of Plant Hardiness Zone 5a.

    The Return of the Intergalactic Planetary Landscape Architect 2008

  • For Obama to do the courageous thing and withdraw would mean having deployed against him the unlimited wrath of the mainstream media, the oil interest, the Israel lobby, the weapons and security industries, all those who have reasons both avowed and unavowed for the perpetuation of American force projection in the Middle East.

    Christopher Lydon: David Bromwich On Obama: Looking At Words Closely 2009

  • Today, American chefs, in their unending hunt for novel match-ups of flavor and texture, have lately been deploying the date in a kaleidoscopic range of recipes, serving an unavowed drupaceous minicuisine to an unsuspecting foodie public.

    Hot Dates Make It on the Restaurant Scene 2009

  • Had there been unavowed connivance of the police agents?

    Les Miserables 2008

  • The chief executive of Caterpillar, an unavowed fan of Cinquecento garden design, wants to create for his palatial mansion located just outside of his company's world headquarters in Peoria, Illinois, a replica of the gardens of Villa D'Este, an exact copy, in fact, except that it will be planted with native vegetation of Plant Hardiness Zone 5a.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Indeed, the two paradigms against which Badiou measures himself are -- on the one hand -- Heidegger's thinking of finitude, and -- on the other -- the scientific naturalism of mainstream analytical philosophy, with its unavowed subjective correlate, an unbridled instrumental attitude to the world.

    enowning enowning 2008

  • Indeed, the two paradigms against which Badiou measures himself are -- on the one hand -- Heidegger's thinking of finitude, and -- on the other -- the scientific naturalism of mainstream analytical philosophy, with its unavowed subjective correlate, an unbridled instrumental attitude to the world.

    Archive 2008-02-01 enowning 2008

  • Saturday evening when I went to visit her in the little sitting-room on the ground floor, which the unavowed proprietor had had regilt.

    Honorine 2007

  • The real though unavowed cause I believe to have been the growth of the Athenian power, which terrified the Lacedaemonians and forced them into war; but the reasons publicly alleged on either side were as follows.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Saturday evening when I went to visit her in the little sitting-room on the ground floor, which the unavowed proprietor had had regilt.

    Honorine 2007

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