Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inevitably; on account of some unavoidable thing or event.

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  • adverb In an unavoidable manner.

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  • adverb by necessity

Etymologies

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unavoidable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Why exactly such writers would choose the indirect and rhetorically impure mode of fiction -- which unavoidably is going to disperse and obscure your "themes" unless you run them diligently roughshod -- in order to give "expression" to such things is never made clear.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • Carter believes he is ready to enter politics, and his name unavoidably will play a role in the outcome Tuesday.

    ajc.com - News 2010

  • The government had been "unavoidably" led to this conclusion following an "assessment of the process necessary".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • The consequence was that although Washington is perhaps the most gossiping place in the world, I escaped its contamination altogether, and had no trouble except such as unavoidably grew out of my public duties; and although I had perhaps a more vexatious time than any of my predecessors in that respect I was the only man, they all say, who grew fat in that office.

    As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur

  • Women have now to appeal to this new electorate to grant that justice which the old electorate has denied them; they have to begin again the weary round of educating their new masters by appeals and arguments; they will once more see their interests "unavoidably" deferred to the interests of the represented classes; they will once again be bidden to stand aside till it is time for another Reform bill to be considered!

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

  • People's Bank deputy governor, has to repeat every month that reserves must "unavoidably" or

    The Foundry 2009

  • Especially with GWB on the front line and having to 'unavoidably' mis or be lat for the convention.

    politicalbetting.com 2008

  • "unavoidably" as you please -- lifted down a hundred delicate works of sculpture from the convent-walls where their pious authors placed them.

    Italian Hours Henry James 1879

  • Mo felt his neck heat up and his thoughts drifting to an angry, ugly study of Philadelphia and Philadelphians and therefore, unavoidably, to his co-workers.

    X, Chapter 3: Morowitz Benjamin Matvey 2012

  • Because of tech issues centering around DNS servers hosting governmental as well as business and media sites DNS=domain name service, a hierarchical naming system built on a distributed database for computers, services, or any resource connected to the internet, some non-governmental sites have been unavoidably affected.

    Lisa Derrick: Anonymous Shuts Down Tunisian Govt Websites After Violence and Web Censorship Lisa Derrick 2011

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