Unresisted

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8, 5 b.]

  1.  Not resisted; not meeting with resistance; † irresistible.

1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 66 b. Leest perauenture other herynge theyr infamy vnresysted, despyse theyr holy prechynge.

c. 1586.  C’tess Pembroke, Psalm LXXI. ii. Show thy unresisted power, Working now thy wonted will.

1593.  Shaks., Lucr., 282. As corne ore-growne by weedes: so heedfull feare Is almost choakt by vnresisted lust.

a. 1614.  Donne, Βιαθανατος (1644), 128. That for the spirituall good of another, a man should expose his own life, is an unresisted doctrine.

1651.  Baxter, Inf. Bapt., Apol. 19. Our God … rather then Schism shall go unresisted, will [etc.].

1705.  Addison, The Campaign, 197. To Donavert, with unresisted force, The gay victorious army bends its course.

1789.  Mrs. Piozzi, Journ. France, II. 370. Black heaths,… over which the unresisted wind sweeps.

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xviii. IV. 119. The white flag, which … had ranged the Channel unresisted.

1881.  Meredith, Tragic Com., i. An unresisted lady-killer is probably less aware that [etc.].

  † 2.  Uninterrupted. Obs.^–1

1603.  Florio, Montaigne, III. iii. 498. It hath three baye-windowes, of a farre-extending, ritch and vnresisted prospect.

  Hence Unresistedly adv.

1673.  Boyle, Ess. Effic. Effluviums, vi. 33. These pass unresistedly thorow the pores of all solid Bodies, and even Glass it self.

1845.  E. Warburton, Crescent & Cross, I. 351. The influence of that discipline … was now sending them unresistedly to encounter … privation in the depths of Africa.

1889.  Welch, Text Bk. Naval Archit., iii. 50. The purely hypothetical case of a vessel rolling unresistedly in still water.