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unsuspect en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + suspect.

Meanings

1. Unsuspected; not subject to suspicion.
   • […] A pilgrim travels unsuspect, for who dare rob a holy man? and he is free from burgal dues; but if the goods be small and very precious, pilgrims may carry them." 1921, John Buchan, chapter 3, in The Path of the King:
2. Not suspect; trustworthy or reliable.
   • […] Thy honour, hitherto unsuspect, will be known to have been but a shew, and shouldst thou seek thy defence in lying excuses, if any such may be fashioned, the accursed scholar, who knows all thy doings, will not suffer it. 1903, Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by J. M. Rigg, The Decameron, Volume II, page 218:
3. Unforeseen.
   • For unsuspect, some dim forbidding Rose within him and knockt at his heart 1913, Maurice Hewlett, "Gnatho", in Helen Redeemed and Other Poems, Macmillan and Co., Limited (1913), page 189

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