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English
Etymology
From un- + molested.
Adjective
unmolested (comparative more unmolested, superlative most unmolested)
- Not bothered, disturbed, or attacked.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. , volume III, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 246:Again she felt a return of that utter despondency which had fallen upon her after Guido's death: but then she could indulge in it unmolested, and that was something of relief: now she was forced into exertion...
1905, Elihu Samuel Riley, A History of Anne Arundel County in Maryland, page 82:The expected stand was not made by the Americans at Mr. Harrison's, for the British passed through his place unmolested and unmolesting. The destruction of the ship was, probably, the main object of the expedition.