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unacknowledging

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unthankful; ungrateful.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of unacknowledge.
  • adjective Failing to acknowledge.

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Examples

  • It was not the wind that blew it, however, for she was stone, through and through, and with the coldness of stone she stood unacknowledging as I wept at her feet.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • It was not the wind that blew it, however, for she was stone, through and through, and with the coldness of stone she stood unacknowledging as I wept at her feet.

    Out to the Horizon, Part II 2005

  • She sat up, looked at her husband, her unacknowledged and unacknowledging husband.

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • It is the function of Christianity to raise this unacknowledging trustfulness and self-giving out of dumb subconsciousness, and to give to it speech, and to crown it with the glory of fully human self-devotion.

    Thoughts on religion at the front 1911

  • So to these voices Ingvar the godar must needs pay heed, even if his own patience were not gone, so that he might not suffer that one should sit at the board of Thor and Odin, untasting and unacknowledging.

    Wulfric the Weapon Thane 1884

  • Pentagon's huge global footprint, and yet, on the other hand, be oblivious to and unacknowledging of the magnitude of its own role - for better or for worse - as the dominant force charting the course of world events?

    NPR Topics: News 2010

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