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unaˈvowed, ppl. a. (un-1 8.)
[1775Ash.] 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 124 If the French king..has in his own person..really deserved these unavowed, but unavenged, murderous attempts. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. xii. II. 94 Coleridge..lamented that an endeavour unavowed had been made to catch his tone. 1876Gladstone in Contemp. Rev. June 5 Votaries who are scattered and isolated; or whose creed is unavowed. Hence unaˈvowedly adv.
1861Maine Anc. Law ii. (1866) 31 The moment the judgment has been rendered and reported, we slide unconsciously or unavowedly into..a new train of thought. |