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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
Adj. countervailing &c. v.; contradictory. unattested, unauthenticated, unsupported by evidence; supposititious.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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
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 Samuel Butler
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
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