unaidedadj.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 141 Who..with solitarie hand Reaching beyond all limit, at one blow Unaided could have finisht thee. View more context for this quotation

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xvi. 652 Thy allies, who, for thy sake,..Perish, unaided and unmiss'd by thee.

1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. vi. 376 I cannot support it unaided.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. i. 5 Mere reasoning, unaided by experiment, was incompetent to answer.

1888 J. M. Barrie When Man's Single xiv. 221 Angus is longing to pull us up the river unaided.

1676 J. Glanvill 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.

1712 R. Blackmore Creation ii. 56 Counting those th' unaided Eye Can see, or by invented Tubes descry.

1773 Observ. State Poor 63 The terrors of unaided poverty would happily operate to the advantage of those, who..prodigally waste those earnings.

1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate Introd. I had therefore the task of avowing myself..as the sole and unaided author of these Novels of Waverley.

1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. iii. 546 The multiplication of unaided eyes could never equal the vision of one person with a telescope.