unwithstood
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ʊd
Adjective[edit]
unwithstood (not comparable)
- Unopposed, not resisted.
- 1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem. […], London: Edward Moxon […], published 1832, →OCLC, stanzas XXXV–XXXVI, pages 18–19:
- As if their own indignant earth, / Which gave the sons of England birth, / Had felt their blood upon her brow, / And shuddering with a mother's throe, / Had turned every drop of blood, / By which her face had been bedewed / To an accent unwithstood, / As if her heart had cried aloud: […]