"unespied" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: From Middle English unespied, onespied, unaspied, unaspyed, equivalent to un- + espied. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|unespied}} Middle English unespied, {{m|enm|onespied}} onespied, {{m|enm|unaspied}} unaspied, {{m|enm|unaspyed}} unaspyed, {{prefix|en|un|espied}} un- + espied Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} unespied (not comparable)
  1. Not espied or having been espied; unseen, unnoticed. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-unespied-en-adj-VKvszM7K Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un-

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      },
      "expansion": "Middle English unespied",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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      },
      "expansion": "onespied",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
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      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
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        "2": "unaspyed"
      },
      "expansion": "unaspyed",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "un",
        "3": "espied"
      },
      "expansion": "un- + espied",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English unespied, onespied, unaspied, unaspyed, equivalent to un- + espied.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "unespied (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1888, John Jewel, The Apology of the Church of England",
          "text": "Think they their sleights are not already perceived, and that they can walk now unespied, as though they had Gyges' ring, to go invisibly by, upon their finger?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed, Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)",
          "text": "The queen's majesty then living, being departed from his presence the next way toward her lodging, he following soon after happened to find her garter, which slacked by chance and so fell from her leg, unespied in the throng by such as attended upon her.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "Not espied or having been espied; unseen, unnoticed."
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      "id": "en-unespied-en-adj-VKvszM7K",
      "links": [
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          "espied",
          "espy"
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        [
          "unseen",
          "unseen"
        ],
        [
          "unnoticed",
          "unnoticed"
        ]
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "unespied"
}
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      "name": "inh"
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      },
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives"
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        {
          "ref": "1888, John Jewel, The Apology of the Church of England",
          "text": "Think they their sleights are not already perceived, and that they can walk now unespied, as though they had Gyges' ring, to go invisibly by, upon their finger?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed, Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)",
          "text": "The queen's majesty then living, being departed from his presence the next way toward her lodging, he following soon after happened to find her garter, which slacked by chance and so fell from her leg, unespied in the throng by such as attended upon her.",
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        "Not espied or having been espied; unseen, unnoticed."
      ],
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        [
          "espied",
          "espy"
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          "unseen",
          "unseen"
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          "unnoticed",
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