unproof
English
Etymology 1
From un- (“absence or lack of”) + proof.
Noun
unproof (countable and uncountable, plural unproofs)
- Absence or lack of proof or evidence; prooflessness.
- 1997, Kim Younglae, Broken Knowledge:
- Modern science came to our help in either way of proof or unproof.
- 1998, Stephen David Ross, The Gift of Touch:
- Perhaps anamnesis, remembering forgetting, is another figure of untruth in truth, the unproof, the arbitrariness and unconvincingness, of every proof.
- 2000, Mac Wellman, Infrared:
- CONSIDER what it is the inchworm measures with his ridiculous lurch-and-drag walk; he measures his way down the aeons of unproof; he measures nothing that is not a thought of God; he measures his life that it may be shared with all; [...]
- 1997, Kim Younglae, Broken Knowledge:
- That which is not proven.
- 2005, Martha McCallum, The Scarlet Thread:
- It is a theory with many unproofs. It has not been demonstrated either theoretically or empirically that time and chance can explain either the universe with its high complexity or man as man.
- 2005, Martha McCallum, The Scarlet Thread:
Etymology 2
From un- + proof (“resiliency, firmness”).
Verb
unproof (third-person singular simple present unproofs, present participle unproofing, simple past and past participle unproofed)
- (transitive) To undo the proofing of; expose to the possibility of failure.
- 2006, James Raimes, Gardening at Ginger:
- [...] but squirrels are smart; they find a way to unproof feeders.
- 2006, James Raimes, Gardening at Ginger: