Uncensured

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1574.  Life 70th Abp. Canterb., To Rdr. E 2 b. A masse of there intolerable supersticions deeds and sayinges vncensured.

1606.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. Tropheis, 1055. But David’s foule defect Was yet un-seen, un-censur’d, un-suspect.

1645.  Milton, Tetrach., Introd. It was preacht before ye … that there was a wicked Book abroad, and ye were taxt of sin that it was yet uncensur’d.

1693.  Dryden, Persius, I. 219. Rather than so, uncensur’d let ’em be.

1728.  R. Morris, Ess. Anc. Archit., 65. From these considerations I pass not uncensur’d.

1767.  Wilkes, Corr. (1805), III. 101. All these papers have passed uncensured … by the two houses of parliament.

1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. II. 11. This breach of the law for a time passed uncensured.

1879.  Farrar, St. Paul (1833), 754. Children of God, uncensured in the midst of a crooked and distorted generation.