unproof

plural unproofs

1. countableuncountableAbsence or lack of proof or evidence; prooflessness.

   Modern science came to our help in either way of proof or unproof.

   1997, Kim Younglae, Broken Knowledge

   2 more examples

   Perhaps anamnesis, remembering forgetting, is another figure of untruth in truth, the unproof, the arbitrariness and unconvincingness, of every proof.

   1998, Stephen David Ross, The Gift of Touch

   CONSIDER what it is the inchworm measures with his ridiculous lurch-and-drag walk; he measures his way down the aeons of unproof; he measures nothing that is not a thought of God; he measures his life that it may be shared with all; [...]

   2000, Mac Wellman, Infrared

2. countableuncountableThat which is not proven.

   It is a theory with many unproofs. It has not been demonstrated either theoretically or empirically that time and chance can explain either the universe with its high complexity or man as man.

   2005, Martha McCallum, The Scarlet Thread

present singular third person unproofs · participle present unproofing · participle past unproofed · past unproofed

1. transitiveTo undo the proofing of; expose to the possibility of failure.

   [...] but squirrels are smart; they find a way to unproof feeders.

   2006, James Raimes, Gardening at Ginger