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

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

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

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

Concede what you please to these arbitrary and unattested superstitions, how will they help you?

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Butler, Samuel

The reader must decide for himself what credit to attach to statements made by Buchanan, and otherwise unattested.

From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various