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- What is the meaning and usage of the word beknownst?
1 Unbeknownst is strictly an adverb may not be benoted as much as unknown since unknown is a noun and an adjective However, it is hardly "archaic" I eathly found samples of being in magazines and books in the last decade
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Recently, I've seen the word unbeknown, which was new to me Is there any difference between unknown and unbeknown in meaning and or usage?
- Why (and for whom) does unbeknown become unbeknownst
Here are the first few for unbeknownst: 1848 Mrs Gaskell Let 11 Nov (1966) 61 — You don’t see me, but I often am sitting in the rocking-chair unbeknownst to you 1854 Huxley in L Huxley Life Lett (1910) I 111, — I hate doing anything of the kind ‘unbeknownst’ to people And here are the first two citations for the other one:
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I was recently reading a review of Donald Rumsfeld's autobiography The reviewer cited one of his famous phrases; he quoted it as "unknown known " Now my memory was that the phrase Rumsfeld used was "
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Unbeknownst Unknown “All I can say is, if he comes here, it's quite unbeknownst to me ” — William Douglas Parish, A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms, Lewes, 1875, 127 Even so, the word is a likely candidate for the last coinage in English using the adverbial genitive
- Is there a word for someone with the same name?
3 OALD registers “ namesake ” with definition, “a person or thing that has the same name as sb stg else I found this word in the short story of Somerset Maugham’s, “A Friend in Need ” The word appears in the story that the hero, Edward Hyde Burton, British merchant living in Kobe told to Maugham when they met in a hotel in Yokohama
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However, bekannt is the past participle of "bekennen" which means "to confess, to acknowledge" - that is to say "to turn into a known thing" whereas the simple un-prefixed kennen verb means "to known" In English, there used to be a similar word beknown and we still use unbeknownst (see German unbekannt - credits @OregonGhost's comment)
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Unbeknowst to each other, Dave and Jill shared a strong attraction Unbeknown to both, Dave and Jill were nursing a deep passion toward each other Unbeknownst and unbeknown both mean "without someone's knowledge " Perhaps that's the key adjective for the feelings you're trying to capture and express?
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