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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unapprehended

1590s, "not understood;" 1610s, "not taken or arrested," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of apprehend (v.).

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unapprehended

a. Not apprehended.

Usage examples of "unapprehended".

But when the police searched his home after his arrest, they found numerous news clippings and magazine articles chronicling the exploits of Bundy and the still unapprehended Green River Killer in the Pacific Northwest, both of whom were necrophiliacs.

Bonney Rest Area was one large parking lot, one small brick building, a few shade trees, and a couple of green picnic tables, site the previous week of a rape and attempted murder by one or more unidentifiable unapprehended subjects.

The weekly report was circulated to magistrates from one end of England to the other, containing details of unapprehended criminals and their foul deeds.

It awakens and enlarges the mind itself by rendering it the receptacle of a thousand unapprehended combinations of thought.

I listen to the mayor berate the police system over my unapprehended state, yet there is hesitation in her voice.

The sense of something quite unapprehended in his situation possessed him.

Edgar will not create a new order or discover the previously unapprehended relations of things, but he will keep the world intact for one more day.

Bret Harte in verse and story touched the parallels of tragedy and of comedy, of pathos, of bathos, and of humor, which love of life and lust of gold opened up amid the unapprehended grandeurs and the coveted treasures of primeval nature.

Miss Delvinia Clough, stabbed in the heart by an unapprehended assailant, at Penzance railway station!

Victims whose assailants were unapprehended had a generalized terror, irrational even to them, that the next stranger they encountered, if he was the same race as their rapist, might be the person who was responsible for the crime.

But when the police searched his home after his arrest, they found numerous news clippings and magazine articles chronicling the exploits of Bundy and the still unapprehended Green River Killer in the Pacific Northwest, both of whom were necrophiliacs.

Over all, a primordial silence reigned -- a silence fraught with the burden of things unutterable by human speech -- with the furtive pulse of an esoteric and exotic life, the secret breathing of unformulable passion, of unapprehended peril, the spirit of a vast and insuppressible fecundity.