unpreventedadj.

1572 Treat. Treasons against Q. Elizabeth ii. f. 131^v The losses and detriments thereof partly are, and more wil be irrecouerable and aboue all recompense, if it go on vnpreuented in time.

1585 R. Greene Planetomachia i. sig. H4 Hee that seeketh to haue his purpose vnpreuented.

1602 T. Campion Obseruations Art Eng. Poesie sig. B1^v The more secure, the more the stroke we feele Of vnpreuented harms.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 231 Shall grace not find means, that..Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought. View more context for this quotation

1735 J. Thomson Rome: 3rd Pt. Liberty 499 The meanly-patient death, That waits a tyrant's unprevented stroke.

1793 J. Nicolson New Syst. Chronology App. 81 The stars which grace the high expansion bright, By their own beams of unprevented light.

1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers III. ix. iii. 226 Lumley reached the door—tapped gently—entered; and the child also stole in unobserved, or at least unprevented.

1871 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 7 Jan. 5/2 The despair attending the consciousness of unprevented preventable diseases.

1953 Bull. Atomic Scientists Sept. 274/3 It seems unsound to spend on loss-prevention more than the unprevented loss would cost.

1992 W. A. Link Paradox Southern Progressivism i. 23 For the mass of southerners, illness went both untreated and unprevented.