Unacknowledged
[ʌnək'nɒlɪdʒd] or [,ʌnək'nɑlɪdʒd]
Definition
(adj.) not recognized or admitted .
(adj.) not openly acknowledged; 'an unacknowledged emergency' .
Edited by Joanne--From WordNet
Definition
adj. not acknowledged or recognised: not confessed: not noticed.—adj. Unacknowl′edging unthankful.
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Examples
- They enter into action in ways which are unacknowledged. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The acknowledged lovers talked and laughed, the unacknowledged were silent. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I should never deserve her confidence again, after forcing from her a confession of what is meant at present to be unacknowledged to any one. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The sensations that I could trace to herself and to me, the unacknowledged sensations that we were feeling in common, were not these. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She wanted it with him, this unacknowledged frenzy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had always the unacknowledged belief, that it was his workmen, the miners, who held in their hands the means of salvation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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