Antonyms for unavowed
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : uh-voud |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈvaʊd |
Definition of unavowed
- As in anonymous : adj unknown, usually by choice
- Yes, that indeed was his unavowed dream, the ambition he dared not confess to himself.
- Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
- Or did she mean that there was some cause, unavowed but not unimaginable, why she should desire them more?
- Extract from : « Dust » by Julian Hawthorne
- Her pursuit of a man, unavowed, bold, is the story of the play.
- Extract from : « Iconoclasts » by James Huneker
- The unavowed desire implanted by nature enters into his conscience.
- Extract from : « The Man Who Laughs » by Victor Hugo
- The extent of unavowed or unconscious scepticism far exceeds that which is openly avowed or consciously felt.
- Extract from : « The Churches and Modern Thought » by Philip Vivian
- The passion with which van den Ende's daughter had agitated him had been wisely mastered, unavowed.
- Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
- The importance of this unavowed connection will be seen later when he made it his business to bring about English intervention.
- Extract from : « Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt » by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- The sciences which are in any peculiar sense modern take as an (unavowed) postulate the fact of consecutive change.
- Extract from : « The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays » by Thorstein Veblen
- We were fighting to liberate the world from diplomatic autocracies using their peoples for unknown and unavowed purposes.
- Extract from : « The Fruits of Victory » by Norman Angell
- By which we are shown that though the theory forbids overt recognition of causation, there is an unavowed recognition of it.
- Extract from : « The Data of Ethics » by Herbert Spencer
Synonyms for unavowed
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