unratifiedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈratᵻfʌɪd/, U.S. /ˌənˈrædəˌfaɪd/ Not ratified; not signed or given formal consent; not officially valid.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > questionable state or quality > state of being unprovable > [adjective] > lacking confirmation
nakedc1400
unratified1565
unsubscribed1571
unsealeda1616
unavouched1629
intestate1656
unattested1665
unconfirmed1671
uncertified1681
unvouched1775
incorroborated1784
unauthenticated1787
unvalued1807
unchartered1812
unaccredited1828
unfathered1830
unguaranteed1855
misvouched1876
uncorroborated1911
1565 in D. H. Fleming Reg. Christian Congregation St. Andrews (1889) I. 238 The pretendit promys of mariaig..wes..unratefyed be hyr in ony sort.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 500/2 Some therefore haue imagined, that such Instruments might happily then be motioned and drawne, and yet die vnratified, though the copies stand recorded.
1652 J. Row Let. in Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 538 Our Commissione of the Generall Assemblie..excommunicating most precious men transgressing unratified Acts.
1716 T. Bradbury Doctr. of Justif. Explain'd v. 113 The Covenant must have remain'd unratify'd.
1768 J. Stonhouse Universal Restitution farther Defended vii. 105 No more than a precarious unratified contingence.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. II. 194 The parliament reviewed the Annates Act, which had been left unratified.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 June 1/1 The Egyptian Convention is still unratified.
1922 Q. Wright Control Amer. Foreign Relations Pref. p. ix In the winter of 1920, with the Treaty of Versailles still unratified and unrejected by the Senate.
2006 M. H. Goodwin Hidden Life of Girls iv. 154 Boys who were unratified participants with bald imperatives.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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