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1554.  Knox, Faythfull Admon., F 8 b. To … obeye that whych God commaundeth be it neuer so harde, so vnapparent or contrarie to their affeccions.

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1614.  Latham, Falconry (1633), 102. For the liuer or the disease thereof, is so secret and vnapparant, that … it is neuer mistrusted nor thought of.

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1645.  Milton, Tetrach., Wks. 1851, IV. 193. Bitter actions of despight too suttle and too unapparent for Law to deal with. Ibid. (1667), P. L., VII. 103. He heares … the rising Birth Of Nature from the unapparent Deep.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., II. 152. On foreign shores Ulysses treads, Or glides a ghost with unapparent shades.

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1755.  Young, Centaur, i. Wks. 1757, IV. 129. A fire elemental is diffused through all nature, though … unapparent in most parts of our globe.

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1816.  Shelley, Dæmon, I. 42. The dark blue orbs that burn below With unapparent fire.

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1890.  Hosmer, Anglo-Sax. Freedom, 129. Nowhere, probably, was the popular moot utterly unapparent.

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  absol.  1821.  Shelley, Adonais, xlv. The inheritors of unfulfilled renown Rose from their thrones, built beyond mortal thought, Far in the Unapparent.

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  Hence Unapparently adv.

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1599.  Sandys, Europæ Spec. (1632), 94. To avoid the contagion of the disease or seducement by the dangerously and unapparently diseased.

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