unenquired

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ enquired

Adjective[edit]

unenquired (not comparable)

  1. Not enquired (into, after, etc.).
    • 1728, Saint Augustine (of Hippo), Pious Breathings, page 399:
      There shall not a sin be left unenquired after, or concealed when found; for the first step towards heaven is to see and lament the near approaches we have made to Hell.
    • 1856, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, volume 11, page 18:
      The chapels of the Calvinists would have been closed, but private opinion would have remained unenquired into, and the Protestants of Holland and Flanders would have been in the same position as the Catholics in England.