ppl. a. (UN-1 8, 5 b.)

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  In very common use from c. 1610.

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1594.  Drayton, Leg. Matilda, xvi. The most iudiciall eyes Did giue the gole impartially to me; So did I stand vnparaleld and free.

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1608.  Machin, Dumbe Knt., I. i. Dost thou not think, Shee is the mirrour of her beauteous sexe, Unparalleld, and uncompanioned?

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1662.  Stillingfl., Orig. Sacr., III. i. § 2. Those many unparalleld miracles, which were wrought among them.

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1713.  Warder, True Amazons (title-p.), Their … unparallelled Love to their Queen.

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1770.  Junius Lett., xli. (1788), 231, note. The … Judge … had the unparallelled impudence to tell [etc.].

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1814.  Scott, Diary, 16 Aug., in Lockhart. Monuments … otherwise unparalleled in Britain.

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1857.  Buckle, Civiliz., I. vii. 354. Progress … made in the face of these unparalleled disasters.

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  Hence Unparalleledly adv., -edness.

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1667.  Waterhouse, Fire Lond., 5. His intercurrent judgements of Fire between this first and that last president of unparalleledness.

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1815.  Ann Smith, Diary, in Life (1851), 40. The freedom, sovereignty, and unparallelledness of his love.

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1854.  Blackw. Mag., LXXV. 448. It is unparalleledly impudent.

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