ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
[1775. Ash.]
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 124. If the French king … has in his own person … really deserved these unavowed, but unavenged, murderous attempts.
1850. L. Hunt, Autobiog., xii. II. 94. Coleridge … lamented that an endeavour unavowed had been made to catch his tone.
1876. Gladstone, in Contemp. Rev., June, 5. Votaries who are scattered and isolated; or whose creed is unavowed.
Hence Unavowedly adv.
1861. Maine, Anc. Law, ii. (1866), 31. The moment the judgment has been rendered and reported, we slide unconsciously or unavowedly into … a new train of thought.
