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aˈvoidless, a. poet.
[f. avoid v. (or n.) + -less.]
That cannot be avoided or escaped, inevitable; that cannot be made void, indefeasible.
a1668Davenant Philos. Disq. (1673) 334 Avoidless ills we to no purpose feare. 1698Dryden Ovid's Met. x. (T.) She too, when ripen'd years she shall attain, Must, of avoidless right, be yours again. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 93 Justice upon thy head the stony curse Shall bring avoidless. |