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 • Mar. 30, 2018

It was a mere unattested memorandum; and he pronounced, as the legal phrase is, for the original will.

From Memoir of Queen Adelaide Consort of King William IV. by Doran, Dr. John

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

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

The law will give effect to the identifying agreement, although it is separate from the will and unattested.

From By Advice of Counsel by Train, Arthur Cheney

Adj. countervailing &c. v.; contradictory. unattested, unauthenticated, unsupported by evidence; supposititious.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark