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- What is the meaning and usage of the word beknownst?
Technically there is no such word as 'beknownst' other than as a back-formation of 'unbeknownst' (unbeknown exists and in fact pre-dates unbeknownst Beknown also exists) It is rather old-fashioned which is probably why some online dictionaries don't list it They have essentially been superceded by 'known' and 'unknown', which have equivalent meanings Nevertheless it is not uncommon to hear
- 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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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
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Folder names alphabetized in groups I suddenly found that, unbeknownst to me, the files in one of my folders had been divided into groups: I to P and Q to Z The group A to O was not included, so all my files with initials A to O are missing from the folder How can I eliminate the groupings and get all my files to show in the folder window again?
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Sometimes we mistakenly think something is true and so we tell it to others; Unbeknownst to us, the thing is not true How to call such untruthfulness? Example: A: You told me she will not b
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