1616. Rich Cabinet, 31. A cuckold is an vnpreuentable destiny.
a. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. (1693), 21. Nineteen Parts of a great Incorporation should be Condemn’d, for the Frowardness, and that unpreventable by all the Power we had of the twentieth Part.
1787. Bentham, Def. Usury, iii. 29. There are so many unpreventable ways of letting it run out at the bung-hole. Ibid. (1816), Offic. Apt. Maximized, Extr. Const. Code (1830), 55. Of this repugnance … the existence is unpreventable.
1895. Voice (N.Y.), 5 Sept., 1/2. One of those terrible, unforeseen, and apparently unpreventable accidents.
Hence Unpreventableness.
1884. Mind, July, 342. The element of unpreventableness or inescapableness.
