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Unavowed

adjective

Not openly expressed. Synonym: sneaking.

Not affirmed or mentioned or declared.

Not openly made known. Synonym: secret. "A secret bride"

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"Unavowed" Quotes from Famous Books

... origin, which we believed to be of the sort usually spoken of as modest. Cumnor had a theory that she had been a governess in some family in which the poet visited and that, in consequence of her position, there was from the first something unavowed, or rather something positively clandestine, in their relations. I on the other hand had hatched a little romance according to which she was the daughter of an artist, a painter or a sculptor, who had left the western world when the century was fresh, to study ...

— The Aspern Papers • Henry James

... unlikely that Akiba's journeys, extending into Africa, and undertaken to bring about the restoration of the independence of Judaea, had as their subsidiary, unavowed purpose, the discovery of the ten lost tribes. The "Dark Continent" played no unimportant role in Talmudic writings, special interest attaching to their narratives of the African adventures of Alexander the Great.[66] On one occasion, it is said, the wise ...

— Jewish Literature and Other Essays • Gustav Karpeles

Words linked to "Unavowed" : sneaking, undeclared, concealed, unacknowledged