beknownst
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably a back-formation from unbeknownst.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]beknownst (not comparable)
- (colloquial, followed by the preposition to) Known; In (someone's) awareness.
- 1854, Sylvanus Urban, “A Great Mulrooney Story”, in Godey's Lady Book:
- Axin' yer pardin, Misther O'Brien, but 'tis well beknownst to a jintleman of your exthraordinady mintal an' quizzical fackilties that the consthruction of the words consthitutes the differ of langwidged, of which pothooks an' hangers is the ilimints.
- 1887, Bret Harte, A Blue Grass Penelope:
- The if he was n't hiding' here beknownst to you, he must have changed his mind agin and got away by the embarcadero.
- 2003, K.S. McCoy, My Mind's Eye[1], →ISBN, page 37:
- Upon her 21 birthday as she had asked the gypsy came to her with her book of spells and on the rising of the night star she did take Angelique deep into the woods where beknownst to only them she performed a ritual so old and ancient that most of her own kind no longer knew it existed.