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

Business done.—Bill requiring military service for unattested single men and childless widowers of military age introduced by Prime Minister.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

By way of facts, we have only a large body of unattested anecdotes of supra-normal successes in crystal-gazing, in many lands and ages; and the scanty records of modern amateur investigators, like the present writer.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

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