unpreventableadj.

a1601 H. Cuffe Differences Ages of Mans Life (1607) 86 It is impossible for mankinde to last for euer, hauing inwardly in his nature sufficient and vnpreuentable causes of dissolution.

1616 T. Gainsford Rich Cabinet f. 31 A cuckold is an vnpreuentable destiny.

a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 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.

1754 Suppl. to Remarks on Pamphlet, Considerations On Late Bill 13 This, in all Probability, would, at this very Hour, have proved the sad and unpreventable Consequence.

1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury iii. 29 There are so many unpreventable ways of letting it run out at the bung-hole.

1816 J. Bentham Extract Constit. Code: Official Aptitude Maximized 55 Of this repugnance..the existence is unpreventable.

1895 Voice (N.Y.) 5 Sept. 1/2 One of those terrible, unforeseen, and apparently unpreventable accidents.

1925 Cent. Mag. Jan. 333/1 The big department stores have come to take for granted a certain amount of shoplifting as unpreventable.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 8 July 76/1 The patient..then had an unpreventable and unpredictable serious complication.

2009 J. Siger Murder in Mykonos i. 10 Thefts from unlocked hotel rooms and unattended bags were grudgingly accepted as an unpreventable fact of modern life.

1884 Mind July 342 The element of unpreventableness or inescapableness.

1985 P. H. Blaney in T. M. Field et al. Stress & Coping xiii. 269 Unpreventableness predicted depression.