ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter xxxiii. 16. He þat does ill, wen he not to be vnpunyst.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 185. Whos see after his deth none myȝte oppresse slepyng unpunsched.
c. 1440. Alph. Tales, 276. So he had levur lefe þe blame vnpunysshid.
1484. Caxton, Fables of Æsop, VI. xv. N viij b. Men ought not to leue hym vnpunysshed.
1512. Helyas, in Thoms, Prose Rom. (1828), III. 75. A good dede is never unrewarded nor an evyll unpunisshed.
1573. L. Lloyd, Marrow of Hist. (1653), 136. They suffered theft to be unpunished.
1613. J. Taylor (Water P.), Waterm. Suit, Wks. (1630), 174/1. Few or none escapes vnpunished if their faults be knowne.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., II. xxx. 183. Crimes … which unpunished, seem Authorised.
1712. Blackmore, Creation, VII. 71. His sword unpunish’d criminals defy.
1776. Gibbon, Decl. & F., vi. (1782), I. 163. The crime went not unpunished.
1827. Pollok, Course T., II. 553. An individual sovereignty, that none Created might, unpunished, bind or touch.
1895. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 319. The impious … ought not to go unpunished.
Hence Unpunishedly adv.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., Pref. A iiij b. They doe so … licentiously as vnpunishedly fome agaynst vs.
1613. Florio, Impunitamente, vnpunishedly.
