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unmoˈlested, ppl. a. (un-1 8.)
1531Reg. Privy Seal Scot. II. 134/2 The saidis personis..to be unattechit,..unmolestit, and untrublit. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 25 King Baldwin..liued for a season vnmolested by his enemies. 1689Boyle Martyrd. Theodora xii. 246 The unmolested Exercise of a Religion, that [etc.]. 1740Cibber Apol. viii. 164 Continuing to act with as little Authority, unmolested. 1772Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) II. 26 They..suffered them to live unmolested. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. lxxxvi, Where the gray stones and unmolested grass Ages, but not oblivion, feebly brave. 1884Sir W. B. Brett in Law Times Rep. LI. 530/1 He has a perfect right..to have his person unmolested by the negligence of another man's servant. Hence unmoˈlestedly adv.
1641Ld. Digby Parl. Sp. 19 Jan. 21 To let them injoy unmolestedly, what belongs unto them. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. vi. ix, The Devil sometimes do's unmolestedly suffer us to write well. 1839Lady Lytton Cheveley viii, They unmolestedly went to..dinners for six months. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 510 Teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence unmolestedly. |