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suspectless en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈsʌspɛktləs/

Etymology

From suspect + -less.

Meanings

1. With no criminal suspects.
   • After some initial successes, agencies began to craft coordinated strategies for submitting and accepting unsolved cases. These strategies must include re-educating detectives, who were told for 25 years that suspectless cases would not be worked. 2001, Norah Rudin, Keith Inman, An Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis, Second Edition, page 161:
2. (obsolete) Not suspecting; having no suspicion.
   • the innocent princes were , suspectless of danger 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
3. (obsolete) Not suspected; not mistrusted.
   • Suspectless have I travell'd all the town thro', / And in this merchant's shape won much acquaintance c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

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