1539. Elyot, Cast. Helthe, 59. They receyue in medicine that, whiche shall ingender … vneuitable destruction into al the body.
1594. J. King, Funeral Serm. (1599), 677. Let his dead … corpse adde one more [instruction] vnto you of common & vnevitable mortalitie.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., VI. (1626), 113. His haste th’vneuitable bowe o’re-took, And through his throte the deadly arrow strook.
1656. W. Montague, Accompl. Wom., 59. We have put on black, because mourning is unevitable, since we must needs bewaile our husbands.
1711. W. King, Heathen Gods & Heroes, xiii. 38. [Pluto] bound them with unevitable Chains.
So † Unevitably adv., inevitably. Obs.
1623. in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 149. Seeing we … cannot but foresee and fear lest the like may … unevitably bring such peril to your Majesties Kingdoms.
