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Unsuspect vs Unsuspecting - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between unsuspect and unsuspecting

is that unsuspect is unsuspected; not subject to suspicion while unsuspecting is of or pertaining to lack of suspicion .

unsuspect

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unsuspected; not subject to suspicion.
  • * 1921 , , The Path of the King , Chapter 3:
    • A pilgrim travels unsuspect , for who dare rob a holy man? and he is free from burgal dues; but if the goods be small and very precious, pilgrims may carry them."
  • Not suspect; trustworthy or reliable.
  • * 1903 , , The Decameron, Volume II (trans. J. M. Rigg, 1903), page 218:
    • Thy honour, hitherto unsuspect , will be known to have been but a shew, and shouldst thou seek thy defence in lying excuses, if any such may be fashioned, the accursed scholar, who knows all thy doings, will not suffer it.
  • Unforeseen.
  • * 1913 , , "Gnatho", in Helen Redeemed and Other Poems , Macmillan and Co., Limited (1913), page 189:
    • For unsuspect , some dim forbidding
    Rose within him and knockt at his heart

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    unsuspecting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to lack of suspicion .
    • He easily shot the unsuspecting target