adv. [UN-1 11.]
1. Without being suspected.
1645. W. Jenkyn, Stil-Destroyer, 44. Poyson is … given … under the notion of good food…, and so it is taken unsuspectedly.
1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. 267. The subtle murtherers do as unsuspectedly as fatally, execute their malice or revenge.
1695. D. Turner, Apol. Chyrurg., 24. That he the more unsuspectedly may carry on his Cheats.
1720. Mrs. Manley, Power of Love, 156. Caton understood no Geography but what had been taught her … in the Country of Love, whence Fauxgarde might unsuspectedly betray her to his wish.
1808. Han. More, Cœlebs, xiii. I. 172. Till he has unsuspectedly landed his opponent in the pure ethics of the gospel.
b. Beyond suspicion; evidently.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), III. 2. Grief so unsuspectedly sincere, for an escape so critical.
2. Unsuspectingly.
1826. P. Pounden, France & Italy, 177. The Jews … unsuspectedly bear in their hands the prophetic records.
