ppl. a. [UN-1 8 b.] Not withstood or hindered; unopposed; also, not successfully opposed.
1595. Daniel, Civ. Wars, II. vii. And stately Thames, inricht with many a flood,… Glides on with pompe of waters vnwithstood.
1708. J. Philips, Cyder, I. 591. Cressy Plains, And Agincourt, deep-ting’d with Blood, confess What the Silures Vigour unwithstood Cou’d do in rigid Fight.
1757. W. Wilkie, Epigoniad, I. 18. When the barb’rous tyrant, unwithstood, His hot revenge shall quench in Grecian blood.
1819. Shelley, Masque A., xxxvi. As if their own indignant Earth … Had turned every drop of blood By which her face had been bedewed To an accent unwithstood.
1848. Aird, Nebuchad., V. ii. A band … bore the centre of the Persians back…. Deep was pushed that column unwithstood.
