Unprevented

Quick meaning: Unprevented is an adjective meaning Not having been prevented.

Meaning

Not having been prevented.

Example Sentences

Father, thy word is past, Man shall find grace; And shall grace not find means, that finds her way, The speediest of thy winged messengers, To visit all thy creatures, and to all Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought?

To complete the strangeness of this strange trial, when sentence had been passed, Raleigh advanced quickly up the court, unprevented, and spoke to Cecil and one or two other commissioners, asking, as a favour, that the King would permit Cobham to die first.

It need only be said that the contrast of the two is striking and unmistakable; and that Webster evidently meant in the one to indicate the punishment of female vice, in the other to draw pity and terror by the exhibition of the unprevented but not unavenged sufferings of female virtue.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unprecluded, unpreventable, unpreventible, nonpreventable, unpreventive, unperpetrated.

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