unattested

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Yet time and again Bach has restored text that was far from clearly missing, or has changed perfectly plausible sounding, but in fact unattested, wording to the standard Lutheran rendering.

From New York Times

Tellingly, in something akin to what linguists call a mondegreen, Bach at several passages apparently misconstrued what the children — in this reconstruction of the scene — had said, and emended a scriptural verse’s legitimate Lutheran rendering to a similar-sounding but unattested wording.

From New York Times

Unattested, un-a-test′ed, adj. not attested.

From Project Gutenberg

By way of facts, we have only a large body of unattested anecdotes of supra-normal successes in crystal-gazing, in many lands and ages; and the scanty records of modern amateur investigators, like the present writer.

From Project Gutenberg

The trade in antiquities is too cheap and easy a thing in Italy to allow faith in unattested relics.

From Project Gutenberg