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unpreˈventable, a.
(un-1 7, 5 b.)
1616Rich Cabinet 31 A cuckold is an vnpreuentable destiny. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1693) 21 Nineteen Parts of a great Incorporation should be Condemn'd, for the Frowardness, and that unpreventable by all the Power we had of the twentieth Part. 1787Bentham Def. Usury iii. 29 There are so many unpreventable ways of letting it run out at the bung-hole. 1816― Offic. Apt. Maximized, Extr. Const. Code (1830) 55 Of this repugnance..the existence is unpreventable. 1895Voice (N.Y.) 5 Sept. 1/2 One of those terrible, unforeseen, and apparently unpreventable accidents.
Hence unpreˈventableness.
1884Mind July 342 The element of unpreventableness or inescapableness. |