ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1531. Reg. Privy Seal Scot., II. 138/2. The saidis personis … to be unattechit,… unmolestit, and untrublit.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 25. King Baldwin … liued for a season vnmolested by his enemies.
1689. Boyle, Martyrd. Theodora, xii. 246. The unmolested Exercise of a Religion, that [etc.].
1740. Cibber, Apol., viii. 164. Continuing to act with as little Authority, unmolested.
1772. Priestley, Inst. Relig. (1782), II. 26. They … suffered them to live unmolested.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., II. lxxxvi. Where the gray stones and unmolested grass Ages, but not oblivion, feebly brave.
1884. Sir W. B. Brett, in Law Times Rep., LI. 530/1. He has a perfect right … to have his person unmolested by the negligence of another man’s servant.
Hence Unmolestedly adv.
1641. Ld. Digby, Parl. Sp., 19 Jan., 2. To let them injoy unmolestedly, what belongs unto them.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., VI. ix. The Devil sometimes do’s unmolestedly suffer us to write well.
1839. Lady Lytton, Cheveley, viii. They unmolestedly went to … dinners for six months.
1879. Farrar, St. Paul, II. 510. Teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence unmolestedly.
