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unprevented

unprevented adjective: not having been prevented.

Adjective

unprevented (not comparable)

  1. Not having been prevented.
    • 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?1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
    • 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.1880, George Saintsbury, A History of English Literature

Origin of unprevented

From un- + prevented.

Questions about unprevented

What does unprevented mean?
Unprevented means not having been prevented.
What part of speech is unprevented?
Unprevented is an adjective.

Words near unprevented in the dictionary

  1. unpreventability
  2. unpreventable
  3. unpreventableness
  4. unpreventables
  5. unpreventably
  6. unprevented
  7. unpreventible
  8. unpreventive
  9. unpreviewable
  10. unpreviewed
  11. unprevisibility

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