unassisted
advEtymology From un- + assisted.
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Without assistance.
- Imagine if children never got any feedback, such as praise and encouragement, as they learnt to walk and only received it when they could walk unassisted.2006, Diane Louise Szarkowicz, Observations and Reflections in Childhood, →ISBN, page 4:
- […] he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC: