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1588. Shaks., Tit. A., II. i. 115. The Forrest walkes are wide and spacious, And many vnfrequented plots there are.
1653. H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., xlviii. 277. Not one appearing in the streets for the space of ten days, during which time all places were unfrequented.
1701. Norris, Ideal World, I. viii. 452. The straight and single, however unfrequented path of truth.
1779. Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, 154. During our stay here we found the islands unfrequented.
1817. J. Scott, Paris Revisit. (ed. 4), 275. Going round … by one of the more unfrequented walks, running through the woods.
1878. Huxley, Physiogr., 189. There are no doubt many slight disturbances, in unfrequented districts.
Hence Unfrequentedness.
1654. Earl Orrery, Parthen. (1676), 79. A Grove, whose unfrequentedness was fit for my melancholly.
1680. H. More, Apocal. Apoc., 160. There would be a great deadness of Trade,… and so great unfrequentedness … would seize his principal Seat.
1727. A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., I. i. 5. The Unfrequentedness of the Coast between the Cape of Good Hope and Natal.
