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unwitnessed

unwitnessed adjective: not witnessed. Also the simple past and past participle of witness.

Adjective

unwitnessed (comparative more unwitnessed, superlative most unwitnessed)

  1. Not witnessed.
    • With added sorrow she had her interred there by torch-light—herself sole mourner. It was a relief to be unwitnessed.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 132
    • Her fate has absorbed Britons, touching the nation’s sense of pity and outrage in a way unwitnessed since the murders of two 10-year-old girls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, in the village of Soham in 2002.2007 May 19, Alan Cowell, “British Girl Vanishes in Portugal, and Her Country Grieves”, in New York Times

Also used as

unwitnessed is also the simple past and past participle of witness.

Forms of unwitnessed

comparativemore unwitnessed
superlativemost unwitnessed

Origin of unwitnessed

From un- + witnessed.

Questions about unwitnessed

What does unwitnessed mean?
Unwitnessed means not witnessed.
What part of speech is unwitnessed?
Unwitnessed is an adjective.

Words near unwitnessed in the dictionary

  1. unwithheld
  2. unwithstandable
  3. unwithstood
  4. unwitness
  5. unwitnessable
  6. unwitnessed
  7. unwitnesses
  8. unwitnessing
  9. unwits
  10. unwitted
  11. unwittily

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