Unparalleled

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8, 5 b.)

  In very common use from c. 1610.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Hence Unparalleledly adv., -edness.

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

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

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