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English
Etymology
suspect + -less
Pronunciation
Adjective
suspectless (comparative more suspectless, superlative most suspectless)
- With no criminal suspects.
2001, Norah Rudin, Keith Inman, An Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis, Second Edition, page 161:After some initial successes, agencies began to craft coordinated strategies for submitting and accepting unsolved cases. These strategies must include re-educating detectives, who were told for 25 years that suspectless cases would not be worked.
- (obsolete) Not suspecting; having no suspicion.
1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, , London: William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:the innocent princes were , suspectless of danger
- (obsolete) Not suspected; not mistrusted.
c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Suspectless have I travell'd all the town thro', / And in this merchant's shape won much acquaintance
References
“suspectless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.