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uneschewable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + eschewable.

Meanings

  1. Not eschewable; imposible to eschew.
    • "To be more clear, the abandonment of the bodily frame on being confronted with the uneschewable calamity, famine, senility, and disease for the sustenance of spiritual practices has been regarded as Sallekhanā." 1967, Kamal Chand Sogani, Ethical Doctrines in Jainism:
    • 'Tis not of sexual impurity that we are now to treat, but another and a much worse sort of impurity stands before us as our dread, yet uneschewable, topic. Our subject, however, is, unnatural sins or vices in their generic aspect, not any one sin ... 1906, William Honyman Gillespie, The Argument, a Priori, for the Being and the Attributes of the Lord God, page 198:
    • He gave the mayor sufficient warning to shift for safety, if an uneschewable destiny had not haltered him. 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall: