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unˈproved, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
†1. Not put to proof or trial; untried. Obs.
c1440Pallad. on Husb i. 236 Preue eek thonpreued greyne afore eschaunge. c1445Pecock Donet 7 Y wote weel þat..scant ynouȝ oon leef schulde stonde vnprovid or colowrabily vnrebukid. 1550Baldwin Mor. Philos. K. iiij, Proue not thy frende wyth dammage, nor vse thou hym vnproued. 1561B. Googe Palingenius' Zodiac Life i. A ij b, Willing to trede vnproued pathes that haue not yet ben gon. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 47 For to find a fresh vnproued knight.
2. Not demonstrated to be true or genuine.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 609/2 Both is his purpose on his part vnproued, & the contrarye to hym proued. 1533Frith Answ. More G 8, His mastership hathe lefte one thinge vnproued. 1628Donne Serm. (1640) 291 The proofe lies on their side; and it rests yet unproved. 1693Dryden Juvenal vi. 313 Prov'd, or unprov'd, the Crime, the Villain dies. 1843J. H. Newman Miracles 63 A fact is not disproved, because the testimony is..insufficient, it is only unproved. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xvii, The essence of bribery is that it should be legally proved; there is not such a thing..as unproved bribery. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece 335 However unproved or doubtful this ancient creed.
Hence unˈprovedness.
a1400–50Alexander 1019 For barnes in þar bignes it baldis þam mekill, Oft with vnprouednes in presse to pas out of lyfe. |