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unpreˈsented, ppl. a.
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(a)1523in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 42 All the trespassors..have byn permitted to passe unpresented. 1548in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) II. App. Q. 57 We also..advertise you, that for no Favour ye go about to excuse or leave unpresented, those that..have offended. 1620Quarles Div. Poems, Feast for Worms ix. ix, No crime unsifted, no sinne unpresented, Can lurke unseene. 1732J. Louthian Form of Process (1752) 185 You shall present no Person for Hatred, Malice, or Ill-will; nor leave any thing unpresented for Fear, Favour or Affection.
(b)1657Baynes in Burton's Diary (1828) II. 278 There are many things yet unpresented in the Petition. c1732in A. Thomson T. Boston of Ettrick (1895) 251 [He] was..scrupulous of anything new or unpresented, until he was thoroughly satisfied of its necessity. 1895Petrie Egypt. Tales Ser. i. Introd. 1 It is strange that..the oldest literature..should yet have remained unpresented to English readers.
(c)1864G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 25 Feb., I went back to New York unavoidably unpresented [to the President]. 1897W. C. Hazlitt 4 Generations II. 221 The Queen and the Court,..their almost affecting solicitude for the health even of the Unpresented. |