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unsuˈspected, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 and 5 b.]
1. Without being suspected.
c1530More Answ. Frith Wks. 833/1 Our english heretikes..might there imprynt theyr heresies amonge other matters, & so sende them hither vnsuspected. 1660Nicholas Papers (Camden) IV. 251 To haue occasion therby to act unsuspected something..contrary vnto his professions. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 97 The governor putting so much confidence in us, that we might go on shore in the very fort unsuspected. 1798S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. II. 123 [He was] enabled, unsuspected, to trace..the emotions of the heart he best loved. 1813Coleridge Remorse ii. i. 57 But I had traced her, stolen unnotic'd on them, And unsuspected..heard the whole.
2. Not regarded with suspicion; not considered to be suspicious or doubtful.
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. xiv, Hoping that (going for a woman) my lookes would passe, either unmarked, or unsuspected. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. v. 23 That ignoble Traytor, The dangerous and vnsuspected Hastings. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 147 For his too profuse bountie he could not be vnsuspected of his brother. 1670Clarendon Hist. Reb. xii. §129 Those principal heads of the Clans who..were of known, or unsuspected Affection to the King. 1747J. Lind Lett. Navy (1757) I. 16 The courage of our common seamen is hitherto generally unsuspected. 1760Ann. Reg., Hist. 39/2 They will find, both in his fortune and his virtue, abundant matter for just and unsuspected panegyric. 1827Scott Chron. Canongate vi, Well judging that he would observe more wholesome caution if he conceived his character unsuspected, than if he were detected. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 234 Russell, as far as can now be discovered, was still unsuspected.
absol.1800Asiat. Ann. Reg., Proc. E. Ind. Ho. 115 It was not justice to confound the unsuspected with the suspected.
b. Const. to with inf., or of.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §202 Those Infusions proceeded from those unsuspected to have any inclinations to Change. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg., Proc. E. Ind. Ho. 137/2 The director..was quite unsuspected of being concerned in the sale of it.
3. Not suspected to exist, or to bear a certain character; not thought of.
1620J. Taylor (Water P.) Jack a Lent B 3 b, Some againe..doe scout into..diuers secret vnsuspected places. 1654Fuller Two Serm. 23 Many a close, secret and unsuspected Christian. 1693Congreve in Dryden's Juvenal xi. (1697) 284 This Day..thou shalt perceive Whether, my self I keep those Rules I give, Or else, an unsuspected Glutton live. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy ii. xvii, An unsuspected fissure in thy master's pocket. 1784Cowper Task vi. 545 A storm was near, An unsuspected storm. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xxv, The mountain-maiden show'd A clambering unsuspected road. 1874J. Geikie Gt. Ice Age iii. 26 It..opens up new channels of discovery which otherwise might have remained unsuspected and unknown.
Hence unsuˈspectedness.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. x. ii. §27 They hoped..(by the strangenesse of the act, and unsuspectednesse of the actors) to amuze all men. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 433 The popularity, the unsuspectedness, is not purchased, but at the expense of appropriate experience. |