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unavoidableness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being unavoidable; inevitableness.

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  • noun Unavoidability.

Etymologies

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unavoidable +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • In the most calamitous season, in the greatest inundation of sin and judgment, under the unavoidableness of public judgments, there is yet ground for faith to plead with God for the preservation, safety, and deliverance of his people.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • These are very remarkable avowals, in the light of the absolute unavoidableness of the conflict at the time they were made; and they naturally tended to precipitate rather than avert the threatened catastrophe.

    Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 George W. Julian

  • The unavoidableness of war was now absolute, and the tone of the President's message was far bolder and better than that of his inaugural.

    Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 George W. Julian

  • "Who's to do the deciding as to the unavoidableness?"

    The S. W. F. Club Caroline E. Jacobs

  • The cleaner was the unavoidableness of the democracies of all countries getting conscious, the nearer was also our Revolution.

    Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship 1918

  • All other topics of consolation, such as men borrow from the unavoidableness of suffering, and the examples of others, bring us no great alleviation.

    The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin Grenville Kleiser 1910

  • Captivating melodies (to prove to you the unavoidableness of self-satisfaction when you know that you have hit perfection), listen to them closely, have an inner pipe of that conceit almost ludicrous when you detect the chirp.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Captivating melodies (to prove to you the unavoidableness of self-satisfaction when you know that you have hit perfection), listen to them closely, have an inner pipe of that conceit almost ludicrous when you detect the chirp.

    The Egoist George Meredith 1868

  • Do the menacing penalties of a sin deter a man from it in proportion to their awfulness, or in proportion to his belief in their reality and unavoidableness?

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

  • One thought brings us a little consolation: the repose, the regularity, the immensity, and the unavoidableness of nature.

    Memories A Story of German Love 1861

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