unconfrontedadj.
(un- prefix1 2.)
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [adjective] > not opposed
unfronted1615
unopposed1625
uncombated1649
unconfronteda1656
unaffronted1840
a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 555 To provide, that they should die free women and unconfronted.
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. II. iii. viii. 141 If these several modes..were to be left altogether unconfronted and uncompared.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Nov. 6/2 Are these by no means ineffectual tactics to go on unconfronted, unchecked?
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- ribbon-cutting ceremony
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