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† 1. Not practised or used. Obs.–1
1533. Bellenden, Livy, III. (S.T.S.), I. 298. Nocht knawand … quhy þe thing (þat was sa mony ȝeris afore vnhantit and out of consuetude) was brocht agane in vse.
2. Not frequented; lonely, solitary.
1568–9. Act 11 Eliz., in Bolton, Stat. Irel. (1621), 369. Enormities that have followed of the disordered trade of aliens to creekes and unhaunted portes.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 349 b. Nor were they sojourning then in ye Cities, or Townes. But coucht close … in unhaunted woodes and fennes.
1617. Campion, Wks. (1909), 181. We both will sit in some vnhaunted shade.
1659. W. Chamberlayne, Pharonnida, IV. 94. Like beauteous flowers, which vainly waste the scent Of odors in unhanted desarts.
3. Not haunted by (or of) something.
1818. Cobbett, Pol. Reg., XXXIII. 162. [They] can lay their heads on their pillows unhaunted by the apprehension of seeing him no more.
1819. Keats, Indolence, ii. Unhaunted quite of all but—nothingness.
1866. Howells, Venet. Life, ii. 2. Unhaunted by any pang for the decay that afterwards saddened me…, I glided on.
Hence Unhauntedness.
1611. Florio, Infrequenza, vnhauntednesse.
