What's the difference between unbeknown and unbeknownst?
Unbeknown
Definition:
(a.) Not known; unknown.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unbeknown to the therapists, half received a description in which the patient's age was 28 and the other half received a description of the same patient but with the age as 78.
(2) "Unbeknown to us Fulham were in the middle of a financial crisis and in serious peril of merging with QPR, with Craven Cottage to be sold for residential development, all courtesy of the club chairman (and, quite conveniently, property developer) David Bulstrode.
(3) Unbeknown to the group, they were joined by another member who had been secretly recording their activities for the FBI since February and would continue monitoring them until their arrest in October.
(4) His tomb was one of four graves located in the search for Richard, although unbeknown to them the king's grave was the one they found in the first half hour of the excavation.
(5) O’Dwyer had appeared with several dogs in the semi-final of the show, but during the final, and unbeknown to viewers, a dog called Chase replaced Matisse in the tightrope act.
(6) Unbeknown to his pupils, father-of-two Macphallen Kuwale had a secret narcotics factory in his home in Cardiff .
(7) Unbeknown to the gunman, Morton-Hoffman had been slipping written messages to the police under the fire door, which he now feared Monis would find.
(8) My husband had guaranteed our house, unbeknown to me, so we lost that, too.
(9) All four of the Brighton jihadis had travelled from the UK and crossed into Syria via the Turkish border to take up arms unbeknown to their parents.
(10) Unbeknown to Chua, Brown was on bail, but still attempted to sell Chua 100,000 tonnes of diesel for $42m.
(11) The amount of test organisms (Sarcinae), introduced into the kitchen (unbeknown to the housewives) by experimentally contaminated minced meat was only reduced by common cleaning procedures, in sofar as nearly half of the original contaminations could be demonstrated to be still present.
(12) One of the other most remarked-upon features of Lessing's life is that, along with Muriel Spark, who unbeknown to her at the time lived nearby in Rhodesia, she is one of literature's most famous bolters - something for which she has been given a hard time, for refusing to demonstrate insufficient breastbeating.
(13) "That was because, unbeknown to him and in the two weeks prior to his birthday, his wife had been treated to a string of advertisements on her Facebook page, each carefully chosen to appeal to the wife of a jolly, Welsh, bearded, rugby loving, cider-making public professional.
(14) Unbeknown to Clark, Brown gave £100,000 to the party in early February 2005 through the British subsidiary of his Swiss-based company 5th Avenue Partners.
(15) Unbeknown to him or the Treasury, a credit boom triggered by financial deregulation would offset his ludicrous, pro-cyclical, recession-inducing budget.
(16) Unbeknown to any of us at the time, two Nazi soldiers had been asked to make a photographic document of the deportation of Hungarian Jews from the moment they got off the train – through the entire system of arriving, going to the bath house and getting their prison clothes – so I ended up in a picture at the very moment I was separated from my sister.
(17) Unbeknown to the lending banks and auditors, Rastogi was in control of more than 200 supposed trading counterparties at "brassplate" addresses in more than 20 different countries.
(18) However, unbeknown to the group, one of their flatmates had mentioned the term to a journalist friend.
(19) Unbeknown to us, one of the teachers had unplugged all of our food mixers so they could get a head start and win, which made the children laugh.
(20) There was never a long enough gap in IRA violence to allow a sensible face-to-face discussion to happen, but unbeknown to officials at the government end of the link, Duddy insisted on setting up a meeting in April for "Fred" and the head of MI5 in Northern Ireland to talk to McGuinness and Gerry Kelly, a leading republican who had been imprisoned for the Old Bailey bomb of 1973.