unbeknownst
English
WOTD – 23 June 2012
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌʌnbɪˈnoʊnst/
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Adverb
unbeknownst (not comparable)
- (followed by to) without the knowledge of
- He went home early, unbeknownst to his mother.
- 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
- Theon’s redemption scene convincingly threatens to kill him right there on the beaches of Dragonstone, dying for a good cause unbeknownst to anyone but the rapscallions who watched him die, but at last it swerves into something genuinely heroic.
Translations
Without the knowledge of
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