Citations:unsuspect

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English citations of unsuspect

Adjective: "unsuspected; not subject to suspicion"

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  • 1888Emily Sarah Holt, The King's Daughters, Chapter 26:
    [] Mistress Wade shall lend me an horse, and we can be safe ere night be o'er, in the house of a good man that I know in a place unsuspect. []
  • 1911Clotilde Graves (as Richard Dehan), The Dop Doctor, Henry Frowde (1911), page 123:
    Here, free and unsuspect and doing his best to send another man to Penal Servitude, was the man who had all to gain by fixing the guilt upon the Accused.
  • 1921John Buchan, The Path of the King, Chapter 3:
    [] A pilgrim travels unsuspect, for who dare rob a holy man? and he is free from burgal dues; but if the goods be small and very precious, pilgrims may carry them."

Adjective: "not suspect; trustworthy or reliable"

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1903
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  • 1903Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Volume II (trans. J. M. Rigg, 1903), page 218:
    Thy honour, hitherto unsuspect, will be known to have been but a shew, and shouldst thou seek thy defence in lying excuses, if any such may be fashioned, the accursed scholar, who knows all thy doings, will not suffer it.

Adjective: "unforeseen"

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1913
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