unwitnessed

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ witnessed.

Adjective

unwitnessed (comparative more unwitnessed, superlative most unwitnessed)

  1. Not witnessed.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 132:
      With added sorrow she had her interred there by torch-light—herself sole mourner. It was a relief to be unwitnessed.
    • 2007 May 19, Alan Cowell, “British Girl Vanishes in Portugal, and Her Country Grieves”, in New York Times:
      Her fate has absorbed Britons, touching the nation’s sense of pity and outrage in a way unwitnessed since the murders of two 10-year-old girls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, in the village of Soham in 2002.

Verb

unwitnessed

  1. simple past and past participle of witness