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Example sentences for "unavowed"

Lexicographically close words:
unavailing; unavailingly; unavenged; unavoidable; unavoidably; unawakened; unaware; unawares; unawed; unbaffled
  1. He had an unavowed distrust of Gilbert's letters, he did not fancy a tutor thus selected, and believed the boy to be physically incapable of the proposed amount of study.

  2. His own acute experience made him alive to the form of injury which might affect the unavowed children and their mother.

  3. Many historical documents, with every appearance of originality, are nothing but unavowed repetitions of earlier documents, and historians occasionally experience, in this connection, remarkable disillusions.

  4. Of the two oral exercises one was an overt, the other an unavowed repetition.

  5. The nursery tales which had scared him in his childhood were founded on the tragedy of Snakes Island, and haunted him with an unavowed persistence still.

  6. Meilhan and myself of a sullen, secret, unavowed but real irritation, when a letter from M.

  7. You accepted my love, unavowed but understood; for I hate those declarations which remind one of a challenge.

  8. But if, instead of losing ourselves in the fog-land of Pantheism, Theosophy and their unavowed congeners, we take our stand upon the firm belief in the otherness of God, the case alters altogether.

  9. And his voice grew tender as he spoke of this hope of the future, these fair-haired children, in the unavowed regret for his celibacy.

  10. It was not jealousy, for there lived not a more upright and better soul; but as a result of self-examination, a gnawing fear of impotence, an unavowed dread haunted him.

  11. Yes, that indeed was his unavowed dream, the ambition he dared not confess to himself.

  12. She had the answer to her inmost doubt--to her last shameful unavowed hope.

  13. They were both glad that Owen was going, that for a while he would be out of their way; and it seemed to her horrible that so much of the stuff of their happiness should be made of such unavowed feelings.

  14. But more pervasive though unavowed changes have come in the teachings of Marxism by way of interpretation and an unintended shifting of the point of view.

  15. It is visible chiefly in the unavowed readiness of the classical writers to accept as imminent and definitive any possible outcome which the writer's habit or temperament inclined him to accept as right and good.

  16. Oddly enough, he led the conversation to his nephew, and found his companion very ready indeed to listen, as perhaps he had anticipated, and even to question him on this theme with close but unavowed interest.

  17. There are few things so annoying, when one has made up his mind to a certain course, as to have the unavowed misgivings and evil auguries of one's own soul aggravated by the vain but ominous dissuasions of others.

  18. The acknowledged danger of foreign invasion, and the unavowed probability of Irish insurrection, would make the retirement of the English army impossible.

  19. And even such rules as they laid down were restricted and modified in accordance with their own countries' interests or their unavowed aims, without specific warrant or explanation.

  20. Some unavowed distrust of her restrained him--a distrust not of her heart but of her intelligence.

  21. The evil resides in a refusal of direct attention which forces the impulse into disguise and concealment, until it enacts its own unavowed uneasy private life subject to no inspection and no control.

  22. If unavowed at first, this purpose did not remain unavowed long.

  23. Was there not an unavowed sense that it was safer that she should die, while innocent of all but wayward folly, than be left to perils which she was so little able to resist?

  24. The struggle was left to be carried on by the subjects of both rulers in unavowed warfare, and from the nature of the case very soon took the form of piracy on one side and of savage repression on the other.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unavowed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.