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English
Etymology
From un- + withstood.
Pronunciation
Adjective
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: […]