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

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 law will give effect to the identifying agreement, although it is separate from the will and unattested.

From By Advice of Counsel by Train, Arthur Cheney

In respect of sales unattested by any written evidence this is a reasonable rule, and so far as they are concerned we have made no innovations.

From The Institutes of Justinian by Moyle, John Baron

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