unseev.
rare.
transitive. To avoid seeing; to leave, or make, unseen.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > allow to pass unnoticed
to look through ——OE
to let (something) overpassa1375
overpassa1382
unseea1395
forgoa1400
balkc1440
dissimulea1450
pass?c1475
dissemblea1500
dissimulatea1533
to wink at1535
nod1607
connive1641
beholdc1650
to wink against1653
to shut one's eyes to (also against, on)a1711
blink1742
a1395 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) ii. xl Whan he sheweth him the soule may not vnsee hym, for he is lyghte.
1865 J. Grote Exploratio Philosophica Pt. I i. 243 We cannot unsee the prospect before us.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xvii. 315 At last we had seen it; and we could not unsee it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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