OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 306 Inexperto [terrore] : ungemettum, oncuþum.

1596 Z. Jones tr. M. Barleti Hist. G. Castriot ix. 366 The husbandman and the peysant..did not thinke that the King would haue suffered them [sc. Barbarians] so long..to haue beene vnmet withall.

1605 B. Jonson Sejanus v. i. 18 Windes loose their strength, when they do empty fly, Vn-met of woods or buildings. View more context for this quotation

1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. iv. 42 Had Warwick been of this opinion, succour had not come unmet withall.

1798 Monthly Mag. 5 367 Back to the desert-air Unmet shall he repair.

1818 H. T. Colebrooke On Import Colonial Corn 108 Yet are his productions not unthreatened nor unmet by dangerous rivalship.

1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 662 While through this poor land range the heathen men, Unmet of any but my King.

1937 C. Richter Sea of Grass i. i. 12 A fragile feminine figure, alone and unmet, stared at by blanketed Indians.

1962 Guardian 13 July 10/4 Housing needs often make unmet demands.

1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 June 652/2 The particular need of the rapidly growing sectors, unmet by the traditional capital market, was to be of significance.

2006 New Scientist 11 Nov. 88 (advt.) The lack of any effective small molecule anti-fibrotic drug class represents a critical and pressing unmet clinical need for this disease.

1482 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 168 Of ilk laid vnmet i obl.