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 Sir Owen Seaman
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
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 John Baron Moyle
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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