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shunless

adj
/ˈʃʌnləs/UK/ˈʃʌnləs/US

Etymology

From shun + -less (suffix meaning ‘lacking, without’), probably popularized by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616) by its use in his play Coriolanus (c. 1608–1609): see the quotation.

  1. inherited from sċunian — “to shun, fear, avoid”
  2. inherited from schonen — “to decline to do, avoid, fear”
  3. suffixed as shunless — “shun + less”

Definitions

  1. That cannot be shunned

    That cannot be shunned; not to be avoided; inevitable, unavoidable.

    • Th' immortal Parcæ, fatal sisters three, / Of mortal men, do sing the shunless fate: / What once Was, what Is now, and what Shall Be, / Their life, their death, their fortune, and their state.
    • [A]lone he entred / The mortall Gate of th'Citie, which he painted / With ſhunleſſe deſtinie: […]
    • [T]he many still would cling / To toil and tears—to life and suffering; / And some, whose anguish might not brook to wait / That shunless doom, plunged headlong to their fate: […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shunless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA