1. Having no suspicion; unsuspecting.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. ii. 1255. The Wolf and Lamb, Lions and Bucks do row Vpon the Waters, side by side, suspectlesse.
1615. T. Adams, White Devil, 6. Judas’ traine soone tooke fire in the suspectless disciples.
1638. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (ed. 2), 71. Such time poore Abdul Fazel (suspectlesse of any villany) passes by, Radgee falls upon him.
a. 1756. G. West, Abuse Trav., vii. The youthful heart, Exposed suspectless to the traytor’s wile.
2. Not liable to suspicion; unsuspected.
1606. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. Trophies, 505. His son the Prince … warns the Jessean by suspect-lesse signes.
1608. Middleton, Five Gallants, I. ii. It keeps my state suspectless and unknown.
1637. Heywood, Pleas. Dial., Wks. 1874, VI. 272. This shape may prove suspectlesse, and the fittest To cloud a godhead in.
Hence † Suspectlessly adv., unsuspectingly.
1599. R. Linche, Fount. Anc. Fiction, O j. The suspectlesly inchaunted sea-trauellers are infinitely beguiled.
