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

By′-lane, a side lane or passage out of the common road; By′-mō′tive, an unavowed motive; By′name, a nickname; By′-pass′age, a side passage.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The passion with which van den Ende's daughter had agitated him had been wisely mastered, unavowed.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

I lingered at the gates, going from one to the other, in the unavowed hope, little idiot that I was, of seeing Joanna.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John