unattested

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Yet time and again Bach has restored text that was far from clearly missing, or has changed perfectly plausible sounding, but in fact unattested, wording to the standard Lutheran rendering.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2018

The trade in antiquities is too cheap and easy a thing in Italy to allow faith in unattested relics.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

It was a mere unattested memorandum; and he pronounced, as the legal phrase is, for the original will.

From Memoir of Queen Adelaide Consort of King William IV. by Doran, Dr. John

The Instrument is simply a document on parchment, signed by the King, but unsealed and unattested.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton

Concede what you please to these arbitrary and unattested superstitions, how will they help you?

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Butler, Samuel