Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not avoided or shunned.
  • Unavoidable; inevitable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not avoided or shunned.
  • adjective obsolete Unavoidable; inevitable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not avoided.
  • adjective obsolete Unavoidable.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ avoided

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Examples

  • So some of the quorum calls are unnecessary; some are unavoided; maybe some is management of the Senate.

    Historical Almanac of the United States Senate 1990

  • Forbes come to her aid with dresses of her own, which they remade between them; for it will easily be believed that no avoidable outlay remained unavoided by the Bruces.

    Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

  • Its doctrine does not destroy nor explain the presiding and elective power which interprets these assimilated and preserved changes, choosing out such of them as it pleases, that unavoided and incomprehensible power, the hiding place of volition and eternity, whose startling call has often been known, in some dread crisis, to effect an instantaneous restoration of the entire bygone life, making all past events troop through the memory, a swiftly awful cavalcade marching along the fibrous pavement of the brain, while each terrified thought rushes to its ashy window to behold.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • 'unvalued' for 'invaluable,' etc.; and Shakespeare has 'unavoided' for

    Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

  • Professor Martin Parry of Imperial College London, a former chair of the UN's Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said: "Even if non-binding pledges made at Copenhagen are completely fulfilled, there is a 1. 5C 'gap' leading to unavoided impacts.

    Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China 2009

  • Professor Martin Parry of Imperial College London, a former chair of the UN's Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said: "Even if non-binding pledges made at Copenhagen are completely fulfilled, there is a 1. 5C 'gap' leading to unavoided impacts.

    Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China 2009

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