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  1.  Not avoided or escaped.

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1565.  Golding, Ovid’s Met., II. 24 b. Phebus … by and by with deadly stripe of unauoyded blow strake through the breast.

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1596.  Drayton, Legends, iv. 670. O powerfull Doome of unavoyded Fate.

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1616.  B. Jonson, Epigr., I. xciv. Yet, Satires, since the most of mankind bee Their vn-auoided subiect, fewest see.

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1642.  H. More, Song Soul, IV. xix. The silent Preachers thoughts … will … Find each man out, and in a moment hit With unavoyded force.

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1842.  Is. Williams, Baptistery, I. ix (1874), 109. Every night He sends his image, wraps us in his cove or unavoided sleep.

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  † 2.  a. Unavoidable; inevitable. Obs.

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1591.  Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., IV. v. 8. A terrible and vnauoyded danger. Ibid. (1594), Rich. III., IV. iv. 218. All vnauoyded is the doome of Destiny.

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  † b.  Unexceptionable; irrefutable. Obs.–1

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1617.  Middleton, Fair Quarrel, V. i. Mine accusation shall haue firme euidence. I will produce an unauoided witnes.

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