unwitnessed

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ witnessed.

Adjective

unwitnessed (comparative more unwitnessed, superlative most unwitnessed)

1. Not witnessed.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 132:

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

   • 2007 May 19, Alan Cowell, “British Girl Vanishes in Portugal, and Her Country Grieves”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Verb

unwitnessed

1. simple past and past participle of witness