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  1.  Not brought to light; not shown up.

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1703.  Mrs. Centlivre, Beau’s Duel, II. ii. Would they take my advice, no fop … shou’d ’scape unexposed.

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1741.  Watts, Improv. Mind, I. v. § 8 (1801), 55. They will endeavour … to render it useless by their censures, rather than suffer … the little mistakes of the author to pass unexposed.

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1817.  Cobbett, Taking Leave, 29. While her infamous press was revelling in unexposed falsehoods and calumnies.

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  2.  Not rendered open, subject, or liable, to something.

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a. 1691.  Boyle, Hist. Air (1692), 82. A place unexposed to the moon’s light.

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1769.  E. Bancroft, Guiana, 17. The white inhabitants … are unexposed to the rays of the sun near mid-day.

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1814.  Wordsw., Excurs., IV. 757. Existence unexposed To the blind walk of mortal accident.

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1865.  Neale, Hymns Paradise, 10. Unexposed to change and chance.

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  3.  Photogr. (See EXPOSE v. 3.)

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1892.  Photogr. Ann., II. 229. The principal constituent of an unexposed dry plate is silver bromide.

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