ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1388. Wyclif, Wisd. xii. 5. Fadris and modris, autours of soulis vnhelpid.
1598. Drayton, Heroic Ep., 6. That poore king, of al these hopes preuented, Vnhard, vnhelp’d.
1720. Pope, Iliad, XVII. 580. Unhelp’d we stand, unequal to engage The force of Hector.
a. 1784. T. Adam, Poor Man’s Guide (1788), 13. Your case is as much unhelped as if there was not one promise there.
1853. Ruskin, Stones Ven., III. ii. 53. Let him consider … how many living souls may have been left uncomforted and unhelped by him.
1888. Bryce, Amer. Commw., II. 531. Nor will the opposite party always accept the proffered help…; sometimes it hopes to win unhelped.
