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unˈsworn, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. MHG. ungesworn, MSw. os(v)orin, Sw. osvuren, MDa. us(v)oren, not having sworn.]
1. Of persons: Not subjected to, or bound by, an oath.
1529More Dialoge Wks. 133/2 For none of them can tel what was said to an other, & yet they be vnsworne also. 1533― Debell. Salem Wks. 973/1 Yet are there many that dare secretely detecte,..and wyll not vncalled and vnsworen, tel no tale at all. 1581Lambarde Eiren. i. x. (1588) 58 Albeit that it be the first Oath that I find to have bene ministred to Iustices of the Peace, yet I thinke they were neither unsworne before, nor at any time after. 1602Segar Hon. Mil. & Civ. i. v. 7 That no Citizen unsworne, should remaine out of Italie more then three yeares. 1678Dryden All for Love v. i, Is there one God unsworn to my Destruction? 1701Prideaux Direct. Ch.-wardens 11 Whatever they do.., while unsworn, is all to their own wrong. 1710J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. I. ii. xv. 128 There are in this Court Three Officers unsworn. 1852Fraser's Mag. March 246/1 He may consequently be supposed, to use the language of the law, ‘to stand unindifferent as he stands unsworn’. 1884Church Bacon iii. 75 An unsworn and unpaid member of the Learned Counsel.
2. Not confirmed by, or sworn as, an oath.
a1623Swinburne Spousals (1686) 11 Of Spousals, some be sworn and some unsworn; that is to say, some Spousals be confirmed by an Oath and some contracted without an Oath. a1800Cowper Odyssey (ed. 2) x. 419 When, therefore, nought of all her solemn oath Unsworn remain'd, I climb'd her stately bed. 1843Act 6–7 Vict. c. 22 (title), The Admission, in certain Cases, of unsworn Testimony in Civil and Criminal Proceedings. 1887Pall Mall G. 9 July 9/2 Granting summonses..on unsworn information. |