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1508. Reg. Privy Seal Scotl., I. 250/1. We … respittis thame to be … unaccusit, unpersewit, unfolowit in the law or by the law.
1520. Caxton’s Chron. Eng., IV. 36 b/2. Also that no man vnaccused in a cryme shold be put frome his dygnyte or degree tyll he were conuycted.
1580. Lupton, Sivquila, 93. Many should be unaccused, that now are falsely accused.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., IV. 178. This was three times prooved, and he still came off unaccused.
1784. Cowper, Task, V. 398. There dwell the most forlorn of human kind; Immur’d though unaccus’d, condemn’d untried.
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, III. 31. He felt … some consolation to find that Edgar … was untainted by deceit, unaccused of any evil.
1897. Daily News, 15 March, 5/4. Ismail Pacha has also amused himself during the past week in making many arrests in the town of unaccused persons.
