Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not witnessed; not attested by witnesses; wanting testimony.

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  • adjective Not seen. Not witnessed

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Examples

  • When it comes to workers 'compensation in Virginia in an "unwitnessed" accident there is a "death presumption."

    News for WSLS 10 2009

  • It's what my heart would sound like if it stepped out of my body and sang... hearing my boy singing, hearing traces of his dad's voice in his, and probably mine, and hearing/feeling/sensing that in his voice is life experience that has been his alone, unwitnessed by me, coming through the tone and timber and expression that is all his.

    Susan Stiffelman: Learning to Parent a Young Adult Susan Stiffelman 2011

  • Were you Govenor and the responsible person would you quietly stand by while someone who is the center of multiple domestic violence occurances go around in the name of the state unsupervised, unwitnessed and carrying the state's firearms?

    McCain: Palin bills were for 'troopergate' 2009

  • Mr. Mellaire, mutually destroying each other in what must have been an unwitnessed epic combat; Ditman Olansen, speared by Wada as he charged Berserk at the head of the mutineers in the attempt to rush the poop; and last, Henry, the cadet of the perishing house, shot at the wheel, from the ventilator-shaft, in the course of his day's work.

    CHAPTER XLVIII 2010

  • It's what my heart would sound like if it stepped out of my body and sang... hearing my boy singing, hearing traces of his dad's voice in his, and probably mine, and hearing/feeling/sensing that in his voice is life experience that has been his alone, unwitnessed by me, coming through the tone and timber and expression that is all his.

    Susan Stiffelman: Learning to Parent a Young Adult Susan Stiffelman 2011

  • Mr Witt thinks that by leaving it unwitnessed he meant to keep ‘the question of a change of destination’ for the French pictures in suspense.

    Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

  • The feedback at the Obama speech and participation of the crowd something unwitnessed since the Kenedy's

    Exit Polls: Obama Cut Deep Into Hillary's Core Constituencies 2009

  • Partly, the fantasy comes from the idea that any civilian deaths you cause will be forgiven; but, much more, it derives from the secondary fantasy that civilian deaths will go mainly unwitnessed.

    David Bromwich: Self-Deception and the Assault on Gaza 2009

  • Her explosive cardiac event will go entirely unwitnessed, as will her subsequent revival.

    seanan_mcguire: Come on up for the Rising... seanan_mcguire 2009

  • This is a couple of Clinton operatives claiming that in unrecorded, unwitnessed private conversations, Richardson said such-and-such.

    Top Hillary Adviser: Richardson Privately Said Obama Is Unelectable 2009

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