ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)

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1694.  Dryden, Love Triumph., IV. i. They stretch their unassisting Hands in vain, But none will plunge into the raging Main, To save the sinking Passenger from Death.

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1716.  Pope, Iliad, V. 395. Nor Sthenelus, with unassisting hands, Remain’d unheedful of his lord’s commands.

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