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unaˈvertable, -ible, a.
(un-1 7 b and 5 b.)
1829Southey in For. Rev. & Cont. Misc. III. 3 The Moorish historian considers it as an unavertable fatality. 1882U.S. Rep. Prec. Met. 540 The theory of an unavertable decline of the Australian gold fields. 1897J. L. Allen Choir Invisible vi. 78 Their own inescapable tombs, their own unavertible ruins. 1929Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 11/7 The public is seldom concerned with the future until it has become an unavertible disaster. |