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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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19 words match “AVOIDABLE”

AVOIDABLE a. 2 definitions
of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale.
UNAVOIDABLE a. 2 definitions
Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles.
AVERAGE n.
loss happening to the ship, or cargo, or freight, in consequence of some fortuitous or unavoidable accident; and it is borne by the individual owners of the articles damaged, or by their insurers. -- Petty averages are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usua…
AVOIDLESS a.
Unavoidable; inevitable.
DEVITABLE a.
Avoidable. [Obs.]
DISQUIETTUDE n.
or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
ESCAPABLE a.
Avoidable.
FORTUITOUS a.
Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes. Abbott.
INDISPENSABLE a.
Unavoidable; inevitable. [Obs.] Fuller.
INEVITABLE a.
Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain. "The inevitable hour." Gray. It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things. Burke.
INEVITABLENESS n.
The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen. Prideaux.
LABOR n.
Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work. God hath set Labor and rest, as day and night, to men Successive. Milton.…
NECESSITY n. 2 definitions
The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
QUIETLY adv.
Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; patiently; as, to submit quietly to unavoidable evils.
SHUNLESS a.
Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable. [R.] "Shunless destiny." Shak.
STOIC n.
d be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
UNAVOIDED a.
Unavoidable; inevitable. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
UNDISPENSABLE a.
Unavoidable; inevitable. [Obs.] Fuller.
UNDO v.
poverish; to ruin, as in reputation, morals, hopes, or the like; as, many are undone by unavoidable losses, but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation, or by indolence. That quaffing and drinking will undo you, Shak.