What is "unavowed"

Usage examples of "unavowed".

For it is not only between husband and wife that these unavowed envies are met, it is between lover and mistress, friend and friend, brother and brother, sometimes, alas, father and son, mother and daughter!

The sects themselves have a half unavowed conviction that they cannot subsist forever as sects, if unsupported by the civil authority.

Even in her anger against him, the knowledge of his forgiving disposition, of the sincerity of his love, was an unavowed support.

He knew that a debate which had long gone on within himself, to himself unavowed, had at length to find its plain-spoken issue.

But I also add that in the exercise of this judgment and control, a purpose, obvious, and scarcely unavowed, to transcend all military necessity, in order to crush out the civil government, will not be overlooked.

This unavowed sentiment explained the sensitiveness of their mutual reactions.

Prompted by vanity, and by an unavowed impulse, he watched, hung over her, fed upon her words, and felt that in pleasing her he was for the present repaid for the zeal he manifested for the Duke her friend.

In the summer of 1897, the act was at last repealed, but always with the unavowed intention of re-enacting it in another form.

The large circulation of the work, the many letters of thanks for it received by the author from laymen and clergymen of different denominations, the numerous avowed and unavowed quotations from it in recent publications, all show that it has not been produced in vain, but has borne fruit in missionary service for reason, liberty, and charity.

This writer, speaking the latent though unavowed ideals of an evil generation of public men, was rewarded by being openly vilified and secretly studied.

Jacob accepted, partly that he might be quit of the law, partly that he might be in the country and among the poor, partly for reasons, or ghosts of reasons, unavowed even to himself.

There was a roomful of old books at Bly--last-century fiction, some of it, which, to the extent of a distinctly deprecated renown, but never to so much as that of a stray specimen, had reached the sequestered home and appealed to the unavowed curiosity of my youth.