Unopposed

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1659.  W. Chamberlayne, Pharon., V. ii. 345. Impetuous rage, like whirlwinds unopposed.

1672.  Dryden, Conq. Granada, IV. i. The people, like a headlong torrent goe;… But, unoppos’d, they either loose their force, Or [etc.].

1780.  Burke, Sp. at Bristol, Wks. III. 415. For what end was that bill to linger beyond the usual period of an unoppos’d measure?

1794.  Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, xxxviii. His talents for play … were generally successful when unopposed by the tricks of villany.

1841.  Elphinstone, Hist. India, I. 507. The Mahometans pursued their success unopposed.

1859.  G. Wilson, Mem. E. Forbes, ii. 45. Thus, unopposed but unencouraged, he laboured at Natural History.

1899.  Mackail, W. Morris, I. 336. An unopposed candidate.

  ellipt.  1893.  Daily News, 3 May, 5/7. The Unopposed Committee of the House of Commons.