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Webster 1913 Edition
Unprevented
Unˊpre-vent′ed
,Adj.
1.
Not prevented or hindered;
as,
. unprevented
sorrowsShak.
2.
Not preceded by anything.
[Obs.]
Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Unprevented
UNPREVENT'ED
, a.1.
Not prevented; not hindered.2.
Not preceded by any thing. Obs.Definition 2024
unprevented
unprevented
English
Adjective
unprevented (not comparable)
- Not having been prevented.
- 1880, George Saintsbury, A History of English Literature:
- 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.