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shunless

adjective /ˈʃʌnləs/

  1. That cannot be shunned; not to be avoided; inevitable, unavoidable.

    literary

    Th' immortal Parcæ, fatal sisters three, / Of mortal men, do sing the shunless fate: / What once Was, what Is now, and what Shall Be, / Their life, their death, their fortune, and their state.

Where it comes from

From shun + -less (suffix meaning ‘lacking, without’), probably popularized by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616) by its use in his play Coriolanus (c. 1608–1609): see the quotation.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry shunless (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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