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unˈseconded, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not backed up or supported.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iii. 34 O Miracle of Men! Him did you leaue (Second to none) vn-seconded by you. 1608[Tofte] Ariosto's Sat. iii. (1611) 33 So that in rank of fauour, I alone Stood still vnseconded of any one. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 9 Nor lay this long unseconded by concurrent Advices from Portsmouth. 1734Thomson Liberty i. 166 Unseconded by art, the spinning race..idly toil. 1778Hamilton Wks. (1886) VII. 558 He attempted, single and unseconded, to possess himself of one of the enemy's field-pieces. 1809–14Wordsw. Excurs. vi. 221 He..Urged unremittingly the stubborn work, Unseconded, uncountenanced. 1884Law Times 8 Nov. 27/2 [A] result..obtained by his own unseconded efforts.
b. spec. (See second v.1 3.)
1816Monthly Mag. XLI. 144 Applause revives. All cry, To France, To France! And Westmoreland unseconded remained. 1865Reader 27 May 594/3 His proposal was unseconded, and fell to the ground.
†2. Unparalleled, unique. Obs.—1
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. vii. 120 Even as in the body of man from putred humours..there have succeeded strange and unseconded shapes of wormes. |