unwitnessed

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adjective

Not witnessed.

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Meanings

adjectiveunwitnessed (comparative more unwitnessed, superlative most unwitnessed)

comparative more unwitnessed · superlative most unwitnessed

  1. Not witnessed.

    With added sorrow she had her interred there by torch-light—herself sole mourner. It was a relief to be unwitnessed.

    1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 132
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    Her fate has absorbed Britons, touching the nation’s sense of pity and outrage in a way unwitnessed since the murders of two 10-year-old girls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, in the village of Soham in 2002.

    2007 May 19, Alan Cowell, “British Girl Vanishes in Portugal, and Her Country Grieves”, in New York Times
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of witness

Origin

From un- + witnessed.

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APA

unwitnessed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unwitnessed

MLA

“unwitnessed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unwitnessed. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unwitnessed,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unwitnessed.

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