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unˈaided, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
Not aided; unassisted: a. In predicative use; also const. by.
1667Milton P.L. vi. 141 Who,..with solitarie hand Reaching beyond all limit, at one blow Unaided could have finisht thee. 1791Cowper Iliad xvi. 652 Thy allies, who, for thy sake,..Perish, unaided and unmiss'd by thee. 1796F. Burney Camilla V. 376, I cannot support it unaided. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. i. 5 Mere reasoning, unaided by experiment, was incompetent to answer. 1888Barrie When a Man's Single (1900) 71/1 Angus is longing to pull us up the river unaided.
b. Attrib.; in later use esp. of the eye.
1676Glanvill Ess. iii. 24 The distance of the Heavens is so vast, that our unaided Senses can give us but extreamly imperfect Informations of that Upper World. 1712Blackmore Creation ii. 77 Counting those the unaided eye Can see, or by invented tubes descry. 1773Observ. State Poor 63 The terrors of unaided poverty would happily operate to the advantage of those, who..prodigally waste those earnings. 1827Scott Chron. Canongate Introd., I had therefore the task of avowing myself..as the sole and unaided author of these Novels of Waverley. 1855Bain Senses & Int. iii. iii. §2 The multiplication of unaided eyes could never equal the vision of one person with a telescope.
Hence unˈaidedly adv.
1859G. Wilson Mem. E. Forbes ii. (1861) 42 Forbes..had..unaidedly discovered the true scope of his intellect. |