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

Adj. countervailing &c. v.; contradictory. unattested, unauthenticated, unsupported by evidence; supposititious.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

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