unwithstood
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: [...]



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