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  1.  Not backed up or supported.

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1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., II. iii. 34. O Miracle of Men! Him did you leaue (Second to none) vn-seconded by you.

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1608.  [Tofte], Ariosto’s Sat., III. (1611), 33. So that in rank of fauour, I alone Stood still vnseconded of any one.

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1691.  T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 9. Nor lay this long unseconded by concurrent Advices from Portsmouth.

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1734.  Thomson, Liberty, I. 166. Unseconded by art, the spinning race … idly toil.

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1778.  Hamilton, Wks. (1886), VII. 558. He attempted, single and unseconded, to possess himself of one of the enemy’s field-pieces.

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1809–14.  Wordsw., Excurs., VI. 221. He … Urged unremittingly the stubborn work, Unseconded, uncountenanced.

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1884.  Law Times, 8 Nov., 27/2. [A] result … obtained by his own unseconded efforts.

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  b.  spec. (See SECOND v.1 3.)

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1816.  Monthly Mag., XLI. 144. Applause revives. All cry, To France, To France! And Westmoreland unseconded remained.

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1865.  Reader, 27 May, 594/3. His proposal was unseconded, and fell to the ground.

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  † 2.  Unparalleled, unique. Obs.–1

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. vii. 120. Even as in the body of man from putred humours … there have succeeded strange and unseconded shapes of wormes.

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