a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 287. They were afraid of being imprisoned,… even for things unnoticeable in the eye of the law.
1810. Wordsw., Prose Wks. (1876), II. 304. A light vapour unnoticeable but by a shepherd.
1859. Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, x. A long-neglected and unnoticeable rent in the … bed-curtain.
Hence Unnoticeableness; Unnoticeably adv.
1833. Harper’s Mag., Sept., 566/1. Unnoticeableness … is … the character … of the dwellings.
1885. ‘E. Garrett,’ At Any Cost, xv. One seal was broken! So cleanly, too, that she almost thought it might be mended unnoticeably.
