ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
In common use from c. 1750.
1720. Pr. James, in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. I. 91. To repose yourselves for some time somwhere in France where your usuall prudence will make you unnoticed.
1762. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, VI. v. There are a thousand unnoticed openings,… which [etc.].
1819. Scott, Leg. Montrose, xix. The strife … had been unnoticed by the stragglers around.
1891. Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, xxx. It was that little unnoticed impulse of natural kindness … which saved her fortunes.
absol. 1841. Carlyle, Heroes, ii. (1904), 77. See, the unnoticed becomes world-notable, the small has grown world-great.
