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"Who's to do the deciding as to the unavoidableness?"

From The S. W. F. Club by Jacobs, Caroline E. (Caroline Elliott Hoogs)

This person would unhesitatingly break his slumber for so commendable a purpose were it not for a circumstance of intolerable unavoidableness.

From The Wallet of Kai Lung by Bramah, Ernest

Do the menacing penalties of a sin deter a man from it in proportion to their awfulness, or in proportion to his belief in their reality and unavoidableness?

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

The unavoidableness of war was now absolute, and the tone of the President's message was far bolder and better than that of his inaugural.

From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by Julian, George W.

These are very remarkable avowals, in the light of the absolute unavoidableness of the conflict at the time they were made; and they naturally tended to precipitate rather than avert the threatened catastrophe.

From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by Julian, George W.