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† suˈspectless, a. Obs.
[f. suspect n.1 + -less.]
1. Having no suspicion; unsuspecting.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 1255 The Wolf and Lamb, Lions and Bucks do row Vpon the Waters, side by side, suspectlesse. 1615T. Adams White Devil 6 Judas' traine soone tooke fire in the suspectless disciples. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 71 Such time poore Abdul Fazel (suspectlesse of any villany) passes by, Radgee falls upon him. a1756G. West Abuse Trav. vii, The youthful heart, Exposed suspectless to the traytor's wile.
2. Not liable to suspicion; unsuspected.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. Trophies 505 His son the Prince..warns the Jessean by suspect-lesse signes. 1608Middleton Five Gallants i. ii, It keeps my state suspectless and unknown. 1637Heywood Pleas. Dial. Wks. 1874 VI. 272 This shape may prove suspectlesse, and the fittest To cloud a godhead in.
Hence † suˈspectlessly adv., unsuspectingly.
1599R. Linche Fount. Anc. Fiction O j, The suspectlesly inchaunted sea-trauellers are infinitely beguiled. |