a. poet. [f. AVOID v. (or sb.) + -LESS.] That cannot be avoided or escaped, inevitable; that cannot be made void, indefeasible.
a. 1668. Davenant, Philos. Disq. (1673), 334. Avoidless ills we to no purpose feare.
1698. Dryden, Ovid’s Met., X. (T.). She too, when ripen’d years she shall attain, Must, of avoidless right, be yours again.
1850. Blackie, Æschylus, I. 93. Justice upon thy head the stony curse Shall bring avoidless.
