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Unconfessed   Listen
Unconfessed

adjective
1.
Not admitted.






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"Unconfessed" Quotes from Famous Books



... he is one of the crowd if he has no slightest hope of making for himself any name in the intellectual world, to commend him to the leaders of thought at Cambridge. And this knowledge is to many a Cambridge boy, playing at being a man, a matter of real, if unconfessed, grief. ...
— Letters to His Friends • Forbes Robinson

... slowness and with playful eyes: "Whenever I am justified in having such anxieties, they shall go unconfessed." ...
— Bylow Hill • George Washington Cable

... primates is the character of their self-consciousness. This useful faculty, that can probe so-deep, has one naive defect—it relies too readily on its own findings. It doesn't suspect enough its own unconfessed predilections. It assumes that it can be completely impartial—but isn't. To instance an obvious way in which it will betray them: beings that are intensely self-conscious and aware of their selves, will also instinctively feel that their universe ...
— This Simian World • Clarence Day Jr.



Words linked to "Unconfessed" :   people, unacknowledged



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