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 reader must decide for himself what credit to attach to statements made by Buchanan, and otherwise unattested.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
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 Dr. John Doran
Adj. countervailing &c. v.; contradictory. unattested, unauthenticated, unsupported by evidence; supposititious.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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 Sir Owen Seaman
