shunless

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈʃʌnləs/
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/ˈʃʌnləs/ · /-lɪs/

Definition of shunless

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (literary)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: […]”
    “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.”

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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.

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