Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not seconded; not supported; not assisted: as, the motion was unseconded; the attempt was unseconded. Not exemplified a second time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not seconded; not supported, aided, or assisted.
- adjective obsolete Not exemplified a second time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
seconded ; not supported, aided, or assisted. - adjective obsolete Not
exemplified a second time.
Etymologies
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Examples
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/ O miracle of men! him did you leave,— / Second to none, unseconded by you....
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/ O miracle of men! him did you leave,— / Second to none, unseconded by you....
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Timely services, therefore, and proper restraints are the only methods with which such persons are to be treated, for minds disposed to such gross impurities as those which lead to such wickednesses or are rendered capital by Law, are seldom to be prevailed on by gentleness, or admonitions unseconded by harsher means.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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She needed no explanation of why Marian had refused an offer from the lips and unseconded by the heart.
The Tyranny of Weakness Charles Neville Buck 1904
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'It is not usual to fight thus unseconded and in the presence of a woman.
Montezuma's Daughter Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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His proposal remaining unseconded, he sought to obliterate the bad impression it had made, by publishing
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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If a man may honour his parents but not obey them, keep loyalty to his governor but rebel against him, then may also his love stand sincere to Christ while unseconded with obedience.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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I really believe the sense of this apparently unending struggle, schemes for retrenchment in which I was unseconded, made me low-spirited, for the sun seems to shine brighter upon me as a free man.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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Timely services, therefore, and proper restraints are the only methods with which such persons are to be treated, for minds disposed to such gross impurities as those which lead to such wickednesses or are rendered capital by Law, are seldom to be prevailed on by gentleness, or admonitions unseconded by harsher means.
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed Hayward, A L 1735
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This Motion however, did not by any Means prevail, but was drop'd single and unseconded after all the Bustle; for 'tis by Experience no unusual
Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723
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