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From un- + provenience + -ed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Not having provenience: not having complete and fully ascertained information about origin, not even knowledge of the site in which an artifact was first found by archaeology (let alone any other aspect of its history). Full definition →
From un- + provenience + -ed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.