Unreproved

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 3092. For-þi ȝour werke ay be witt ȝe wirke vnreproued [v.r. vnreprefytt].

c. 1400.  Found. St. Bartholomew’s (1923), 13. He … yn his techynge vnrepreuyd was fownde.

1420–2.  Lydg., Thebes, 4152. That we bygan we knyghtly han achieuyd Vpon our foon, with worship vnrepreuyd.

1578.  Whetstone, Promos & Cass., II. III. i. God graunt I scape this blacke day unreprev’d.

1590.  Spenser, F. Q., II. vii. 16. The antique world … with glad thankes, and vnreproued truth, The gifts of soueraigne bountie did embrace.

1615.  G. Sandys, Trav., 14. Yet haue the Christians their Churches, and vnreproued exercise of religion.

1667.  Milton, P. L., IV. 493. With eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov’d.

1703.  De Foe, More Reform., 8. Let them expose thy Errors to the Town, Thou shalt go unreprov’d, ’till they repent.

1760–72.  H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), III. 18. Man … riots at large and unreproved.

1820.  Scott, Monast., iv. The servants mingled,… unreproved and with freedom, in whatever conversation was going forward.

1861.  Ld. Acton, in Gasquet, Ld. A. & Circle (1906), 165. Newman’s view of the Council of Trent should not go unreproved.