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Unbeknownst   /ənbinˈoʊnst/   Listen
Unbeknownst

adjective
1.
(usually used with 'to') occurring or existing without the knowledge of.  Synonym: unbeknown.  "She had been ill for months, unbeknownst to the family"





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... that the prerogative of mercy would have been vigorously used in his hands, but he did not wish for a conflict on this matter at all; and Grant was taught, in a parable about a teetotal Irishman who forgave being served with liquor unbeknownst to himself, that zeal in capturing Jefferson Davis and his colleagues was ...
— Abraham Lincoln • Lord Charnwood


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