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English
Etymology
c. 1636: probably from unbeknown + -st
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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.
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