"unsight unseen" meaning in English

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "unsight unseen (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "sight unseen"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2, lines 638–641",
          "text": "For to subscribe, unsight, unseen, / To an unknown Church-discipline, / What is it else, but before-hand / T'engage, and after understand?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1712 October 16, Joseph Addison, “On Seducers—Procuresses—Letter from one”, in The Spectator, number 511, quoted in The Works of Joseph Addison, volume 2, page 274, published 1842",
          "text": "It seems the general of the Tartars, after having laid siege to a strong town in China, and taken it by storm, would set to sale all the women that were found in it. Accordingly he put each of them into a sack, and, after having thoroughly considered the value of the woman who was enclosed, marked the price that was demanded for her upon the sack. There was a great confluence of chapmen, that resorted from every part, with a design to purchase, which they were to do 'unsight unseen.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton, page 311",
          "text": "Their new Chaps were so eager, that they would have bargain'd with the old Captain before-hand: Nay Friend, said he, I will not trade with thee unsight and unseen; neither do I know whether the Master of the Sloop may not have sold his Loading already to some Merchants of Salset; but if he has not, when I come to him, I think to bring him up to thee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dated form of sight unseen."
      ],
      "id": "en-unsight_unseen-en-adj-kDYnWOkO",
      "links": [
        [
          "sight unseen",
          "sight unseen#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "dated",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "unsight unseen"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "unsight unseen (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "sight unseen"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English dated forms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2, lines 638–641",
          "text": "For to subscribe, unsight, unseen, / To an unknown Church-discipline, / What is it else, but before-hand / T'engage, and after understand?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1712 October 16, Joseph Addison, “On Seducers—Procuresses—Letter from one”, in The Spectator, number 511, quoted in The Works of Joseph Addison, volume 2, page 274, published 1842",
          "text": "It seems the general of the Tartars, after having laid siege to a strong town in China, and taken it by storm, would set to sale all the women that were found in it. Accordingly he put each of them into a sack, and, after having thoroughly considered the value of the woman who was enclosed, marked the price that was demanded for her upon the sack. There was a great confluence of chapmen, that resorted from every part, with a design to purchase, which they were to do 'unsight unseen.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton, page 311",
          "text": "Their new Chaps were so eager, that they would have bargain'd with the old Captain before-hand: Nay Friend, said he, I will not trade with thee unsight and unseen; neither do I know whether the Master of the Sloop may not have sold his Loading already to some Merchants of Salset; but if he has not, when I come to him, I think to bring him up to thee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dated form of sight unseen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sight unseen",
          "sight unseen#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "dated",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "unsight unseen"
}