unwithstood

unwithstood

English

Etymology

un- +‎ withstood

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʊd

Adjective

unwithstood (not comparable)

1. Unopposed, not resisted.
   • 1819, Percy Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy:

     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: [...]