a. (UN-1 7.).
1595. Daniel, Civil Wars, IV. xxxv. But vnsuspicious magnanimitie Shames such effects of feare, and force to show.
1671. Milton, Samson, 1635. His guide … unsuspitious led him.
1727. Thomson, Britannia, 110. Like brothers live, in amity combin’d, And unsuspicious faith.
1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer., III. I. 211. The unsuspicious confidence of a man conscious of no crime.
1825. Scott, Talism., xx. The unsuspicious object of the dark treachery.
1871. B. Taylor, Faust (1872), II. III. 165. This place all unsuspicious I forsook For Cytheræa’s fane.
b. Const. of or with clause.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., 158. Her Sister,… simply unsuspitious of the sequell, prouided … a pyle of dry Faggots.
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, III. 279. Unsuspicious of his remarks … [she] was gay. Ibid., V. 7. Edgar [was] not wholly unsuspicious such an accident might happen.
1825. Scott, Betrothed, iii. He was not unsuspicious, though altogether fearless, of the result.
Hence Unsuspiciously adv.; Unsuspiciousness.
a. 1812. Buckminster, Serm. (1827), 94. Epistles … *unsuspiciously authentic.
1854. Thackeray, Newcomes, i. Little lambkin was lying unsuspiciously at the side of the wolf.
1809. Mar. Edgeworth, Manœuvring, iv. A fluent panegyric upon the hereditary *unsuspiciousness of his temper.
a. 1834. Coleridge, Lit. Rem. (1836), II. 267. Her absolute unsuspiciousness, and holy entireness of love.
