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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unacknowledged
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unacknowledged anger
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A more contemporary comparison might be deconstruction, which tries to subvert the text by turning its own unacknowledged premises against it.
▪ Business agents, stewards, to me, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
▪ Fear, embarrassment, anxiety - all, if unacknowledged, get in the way of a real, live relationship.
▪ Hours and hours of Blackwomen's work goes - unpaid and unacknowledged - into quite literally saving Blackwomen from failing their degrees.
▪ Most patients can cope with unacknowledged grief and anxiety because they are in hospital for a short time.
▪ Part of this comes from a superstitious but unacknowledged sense that grief is contagious and unlucky.
▪ Whatever we most dislike or fear in others is sure to be an unacknowledged aspect of ourselves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unacknowledged

1580s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of acknowledge (v.).

Wiktionary
unacknowledged

a. Not acknowledged

WordNet
unacknowledged
  1. adj. not recognized or admitted [ant: acknowledged]

  2. not openly acknowledged; "an unacknowledged emergency"

Usage examples of "unacknowledged".

But mixed in with this, adding the peculiar flavours and mistaken resonances, were his own fugitive literary skills, unacknowledged guilts, and quirkily allusive sexual anxieties.

Life and property were both swallowed up, leaving behind a deep-seated sense of enormous wrong, as yet unatoned and even unacknowledged, which is one of the chief factors in the problem now presented to the statesmen of both countries.

Even on the streets of the smiling town of Ludwigsburg, the men on the staff of the Z Commission went ungreeted and unacknowledged by the citizens, to whom their presence brought an undesired notoriety.

English, hoping, in spite of his unacknowledged yearning for someone to talk to, that the old man would understand and leave him to his lonely Lenten vigil.

The paintings would have called to her at any time, but they were especially compelling tonight, when she needed a feeling of strength to combat the fear that came when she thought about the Jade Emperor, burial shrouds, and her unacknowledged grandfather, Wen Zhi Tang.

And she would have preferred her love for him to remain unrealized, unacknowledged to her self.

His rank, like a coat made for some large ancestor, hung loose upon him: he was always trying to persuade himself that it was an excellent fit, but ever with an unacknowledged misgiving.

Still, it chagrins me that a prince of your bloodlines should go unacknowledged amongst his own folk.

Yet you are also dead to our people, and Chade is both elderly and unacknowledged as a Farseer.

He could not at any time have very well defined his feelings toward his sister, but mingling in them, certainly, was a vein of unacknowledged dread, and, shall I say, respect.

Stanley, and to fancy that whatever he did it was with an unacknowledged purpose.

A moment lengthened, thinned, broke apart into something new, less dangerous, a crediting of the unacknowledged in one another.

There were all these wheels in motion when Barbs was still everywhere around them, between them, irrevocably between them, but still unacknowledged, still not discussed.

Nevertheless, as years rolled by, some unacknowledged remorse had come to them amid their happiness at having him beside them like some hoarded treasure, the delight of an avaricious old age, following a life of prodigality.

There was also the hidden, unacknowledged anyway, thrill of having Sarah with him there.