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Unseen vs Unespied - What's the difference?

unseen | unespied |

As adjectives the difference between unseen and unespied

is that unseen is not seen or discovered while unespied is not espied or having been espied; unseen, unnoticed.

As a verb unseen

is past participle of lang=en.

As a noun unseen

is an examination involving material not previously seen or studied.

unseen

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not seen or discovered.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.}}
  • Unskilled; inexperienced.
    • Derived terms
    * sight unseen

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
    • What has been seen cannot be unseen .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.
    • I have French and Latin unseens this summer.

    unespied

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not espied or having been espied; unseen, unnoticed.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • *:So did she steale his heedelesse hart away, / And joyd his love in secret unespyde [...].
  • *{{quote-book, year=1667, author=John Milton, title=Paradise Lost, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then from his lofty stand on that high tree Down he alights among the sportful herd Of those four-footed kinds, himself now one, Now other, as their shape served best his end Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied , To mark what of their state he more might learn, By word or action marked. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1888, author=John Jewel, title=The Apology of the Church of England, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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? }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed, title=Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}