Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not attested.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not attested; having no attestation.
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- adjective Not supported by
attestation , lacking supportingevidence in the form of assurance from an authority.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There has literally been no point since 1400 when singular they went unattested in contemporary English.
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar 2009
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There has literally been no point since 1400 when singular they went unattested in contemporary English.
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Further down history we may lack a suitable resolution of data — intermediate forms may go unattested — so some apparent disrepancies will be popping up.
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The vocalism of the Egyptian word is unattested due to the nature of its script but if we reconstruct *mīnašat, it agrees better with the Hittite and Mycenaean material while still resembling the Latin reflex enough to pursue this hypothetical relationship further.
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We could assume eg. a parallel but unattested Aegean loan to Anatolian from the same root, but that would remain speculation just as much.
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It carries a design that bears a clear resemblance to the "Ring of Nestor," even featuring those otherwise unattested chrysalises.
Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery Beard, Mary 2009
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Wallace's title would depend on a usage of the Etruscan term that, as far as I know, is completely unattested.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Wallace's title would depend on a usage of the Etruscan term that, as far as I know, is completely unattested.
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna 2009
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Paleoglot: Daydreaming about unattested Etruscan pronouns skip to main
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A Noun that has the accent shift between Root-Stem Suffix-Case ending in Nom-Acc-Gen is a holodynamic paradigm and not unattested.
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