buttress
noun
any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall.
unbuttressed
-
a word derived from
buttress.
Example Sentences
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At ABC, World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings and executive producer Paul Friedman were more leery of the unbuttressed charges and reluctant to credit another news organization on a topic they too had been pursuing.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the second place, infidelity, on the principle of Bacon, is a weak, tottering thing, unbuttressed by that support which gives to poor human nature half its strength and all its dignity.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
Walls are usually thick and stand unbuttressed, and rarely have such slopes and diminutions of apparent thickness towards their upper part as are not uncommon in England.
From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith
