unavowed

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Chirac's candidate, incumbent Assembly President Edgar Faure, 69, was pitted against Giscard's unavowed but clear choice, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 63.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his plays, the previously unmentionable was said; the formerly unavowed, acknowledged.

From Time Magazine Archive

These secret and unavowed alliances transfigure the unlovely streets, and light in the cavernous blank houses many a glowing and familiar hearth.

From Apologia Diffidentis by Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock)

Then something happened which quite curiously quickened Godfrey Pavely's unavowed feeling for Katty.

From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

He seemed to labour under an unavowed impression of the share which the declamatory zeal of his party had to lay to its charge in the national peril.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various