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unbeˈknownst, a. or adv. Orig. colloq. and dial.
Also unbeknowns, etc.
[f. prec. The analogy on which the -s or -st has been added is not clear: cf. the earlier unknownst.]
= unbeknown 2. Also, = unbeknown ppl. a. 1.
Now of much wider currency than in the 19th. cent.
1848Mrs. Gaskell Let. 11 Nov. (1966) 61 You don't see me, but I often am sitting in the rocking-chair unbeknownst to you. 1854Huxley in L. Huxley Life & Lett. (1910) I. 111, I hate doing anything of the kind ‘unbeknownst’ to people. 1854Poultry Chron. I. 331/1 It was found that she was sitting on a nest of eggs,—unbeknownst. 1887Kipling Plain Tales from Hills (1888) 147 Perhaps they were afraid that their wives had come from Homo unbeknownst. 1907J. M. Synge Playboy of Western World iii. 70 Burying your poor father unbeknownst when..we could have given him a decent burial. 1932W. Faulkner Light in August i. 16 Interfering with his work unbeknownst to him. 1952A. Christie They do it with Mirrors xiii. 122 One of those smart lads may have got out of the College buildings unbeknownst. 1979Dædalus Summer 99 Here, illusion, unbeknownst to those who believed they had overcome it, made its most triumphant reentry. 1982London Rev. Bks. 20 May–2 June 3 A whole other wife and children all unbeknownst to Ackerley until after his father's death. |