Unwitnessed

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1407.  Exam. Wm. of Thorpe (MS. Rawl. C. 208), fol. 33 b. For truþe whanne it is sowen may not ben vnwitnessid.

1592.  Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 1023. Trifles, unwitnessed with eye or ear.

1594.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., Pref. iii. § 12. Lest their zeale to the cause should any way be unwitnessed.

1615.  Chapman, Odyss., X. 711. Circe … as she came Vanisht againe, vnwitnest by our eyes.

1652.  Benlowes, Theoph., XIII. xxvi. Th’ unwitnest witnes of his love.

a. 1750.  A. Hill, Wks. (1753), II. 66. The unwitnessed reflections of solitude.

a. 1800.  Cowper, Odyss. (ed. 2), X. 583. My friends, who with complaints, By thee unwitness’d, wear my heart away.

1812.  Crabbe, Tales, xii. 253. I … share unwitness’d pomp, unenvied power.

1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer, xiii. The mighty ocean was as yet a wonder unwitnessed by the bold Australian.