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  1.  Not made generally known or accessible, esp. in print.

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1607.  Markham, Cavel. (title-p.), The discovery of the subtill trade … of horse-coursers: Secrets before vnpublished.

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1684.  T. Burnet, Theory Earth, I. 261. The ancient glosses and catenæ upon Scripture … are many of them either lost or unpublisht.

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1731.  Hist. Litteraria, III. 259. Authors … whose Writings still remain unpublished in the Libraries of Rome, Venice, and Paris.

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1828.  P. Buchan (title), Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland hitherto unpublished.

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1862.  Numism. Chron., II. 104. Unpublished Greek Imperial Coins.

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  2.  Not divulged or disclosed.

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1605.  Shaks., Lear, IV. iv. 16. All blest Secrets, All you vnpublish’d Vertues of the earth Spring with my teares.

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a. 1850.  Bryant, The Past, 30. Labours of good to man, Unpublished charity, unbroken faith.

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1886.  Mrs. Hungerford, Mental Struggle, vii. ‘Nobody can help me,’ declares the as yet unpublished sinner.

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