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unsuˈstained, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not materially sustained or supported.
1630Drummond of Hawthornden Flowers Sion, Hymn Passion 9 Seeing..How vnsustain'd the Earth still steadfast stands. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 430 Each Flour..whose head..Hung drooping unsustained. 1725Pope Odyssey xii. 517 All unsustain'd between the wave and sky, Beneath my feet the whirling billows fly.
2. Not supported by assistance, etc.
1697Dryden æneis xi. 1238 The Volscians quit the Field; And, unsustain'd, the Chiefs of Turnus yield. 1719Young Par. Job 236 Hale are their young, from human frailties freed; Walk unsustain'd, and unassisted feed. 1809–14Wordsw. Excurs. vi. 767 With a sigh She spake, yet, I believe, not unsustained By faith in glory [etc.]. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xii. 129 A penalty is denounced against..the accuser for his unsustained prosecution. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. i. 17 Unsustained by Cartier, Roberval accomplished no more than a verification of previous discoveries.
3. Not maintained at a uniform level of excellence; flagging in interest.
1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. xiv. II. 9 An unsustained composition, from which the reader collects rapidly the general result unattracted by the component parts. |