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

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

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

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

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