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Unaccompanied

adjective

Being without an escort. Antonym: accompanied.

Playing or singing without accompaniment. Antonym: accompanied.

(of a state or an event) taking place without something specified occurring at the same time.

adverb

Without anybody else or anything else. Synonyms: alone, solo. "The pillar stood alone, supporting nothing" , "He flew solo"

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... ground and close enough up. If a party of them meets a bear in the open they have great fun; and the struggle between the shouting, galloping, rough-riders and their shaggy quarry is full of wild excitement and not unaccompanied by danger. The bear often throws the noose from his head so rapidly that it is a difficult matter to catch him; and his frequent charges scatter his tormentors in every direction while the horses become ...

— Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches • Theodore Roosevelt

... literally "in chapel style," and refers to the fact that in the early days of the church all singing was unaccompanied. ...

— Music Notation and Terminology • Karl W. Gehrkens

... difficulty in persuading Glaukias, who had come across the lake with him, to allow him to follow up the fair vision unaccompanied; and his entreaties and prohibitions would probably alike have proved vain, but that Glaukias held taken it into his head to show his latest work, which a slave was carrying, to some friends over a jar of wine. It was a caricature of Caesar, whom he had seen at the ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... torrents of rain fell at a time of the year most unusual for it, and "almost unprecedented in Central America," it is not difficult to understand that the volumes of vapour and clouds of ashes might have disturbed the atmospheric equilibrium. Humboldt extends this view to the case of earthquakes unaccompanied by eruptions; but I can hardly conceive it possible that the small quantity of aeriform fluids which then escape from the fissured ground can produce such remarkable effects. There appears much probability in the view first proposed by Mr. P. Scrope, ...

— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin

... women: their eager flair for bearing physical pain. As we have seen, they have actually a good deal less endurance than men; massive injuries shock them more severely and kill them more quickly. But when acute algesia is unaccompanied by any profounder phenomena they are undoubtedly able to bear it with a far greater show of resignation. The reason is not far to seek. In pain a man sees only an invasion of his liberty, strength and self-esteem. ...

— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken

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