ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1833. Sarah Austin, Charac. Goethe, II. 55. Unheralded, without pomp, he came to Weimar; and without pomp did he depart thence.
1845. Neale, Euphratean Angels, iv., in Seatonian Poems (1864), 7. Yet not unheralded by fear, The End of all things shall draw near.
1871. Macduff, Mem. Patmos, xxiii. 315. A prey to the disquieting thought of the unheralded footfall. [Freq. in recent use.]
1899. J. P. Austin, Blue & Gray, 92. How many such unheralded acts, done in pure sympathy, were performed during the war, will never be known.