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1591. Shaks., Two Gent., V. iv. 144. I heere … Plead a new state in thy vn-riual’d merit, To which I thus subscribe.
1667. Milton, P. L., III. 68. Uninterrupted joy, unrivald love In blissful solitude.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, X. 492. But your Endymion,… Unrivall’d, shall a Beauteous Dame enjoy.
1708. J. Philips, Cyder, II. 7. Thou view’st … what Unrival’d Authors by their Presence made For ever venerable.
1771. Junius’ Lett., lxvii. (1772), II. 305, note. In the memoirs of private treachery they stand first and unrivalled.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., iv. I. 445. Unrivalled powers of argument and eloquence.
1877. Mrs. Oliphant, Makers Flor., xv. 369. [He] had shown himself unrivalled and above all competitors.
