Meaning of shunless | Babel Free

Definitions

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

literary

Examples

“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: […]”

“They oft / The sway of his red club, the shunless aim / Of his dreadful bow, and wasting tomahawk, / Had felt; […]”

“As for mine own⟳ dear life, O king, and thy most kingly head, / I tremble; since this cloud of war stout Hector rolleth o'er us / Dread-darkling; and perdition yawns with shunless gape before us.”

“O, greatest of shame! / O, shunless disgrace! / God's distress! God's distress! / Endless regret⟳! Infinite grief! / The saddest am I among all men!”

“This to the shunless fardel of the world / Nerves my uncurbèd back; […]”

“Foolishly we shun this shunless Sadness; fondly we deem of her as but huntress of men, who is tender and the bringer of tenderness to those she visits with her fearful favors.”

“Hero and coward enter⟳ Hades' Gate / Through the same deathless, shunless Destiny,— / Apportioned and decreed.”

“Harden'd are we by Life: its iron⟳ pains, / Its shunless endings, do we know⟳; […]”

“It seemed flung down before me by the genius presiding over my life's evolution, or if you will, by providential interposition at a turn⟳ of human destiny, with a secret but shunless behest to seize the unique opportunity.”

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