Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not prevented; not hindered.
  • Not preceded by anything.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not prevented or hindered.
  • adjective obsolete Not preceded by anything.

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  • adjective Not having been prevented.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ prevented

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Examples

  • The relevant right here is neither the liberty-right to participate in the good nor the claim-right to be unprevented by others from participating in the good, both of which will normally be individual rights.

    Group Rights Jones, Peter 2008

  • Since one is free to the extent that one is externally unprevented from doing things, they say, one can be free to do what one does not desire to do.

    Positive and Negative Liberty Carter, Ian 2007

  • If being free meant being unprevented from realizing one's desires, then one could, again paradoxically, reduce one's unfreedom by coming to desire fewer of the things one is unfree to do.

    Positive and Negative Liberty Carter, Ian 2007

  • You are part of the reason that so many rapes go unprevented and unreported.

    Follow-up on “Don’t Piss Off Krissy” « Whatever 2006

  • And it was the characteristic of our Visionary, that, when he saw a Duty so placed before him, he knew no other course than straightly to pursue it, looking neither to the right hand nor to the left, unprevented by obstacles, and fearless of consequences.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

  • 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.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • To complete the strangeness of this strange trial, when sentence had been passed, Raleigh advanced quickly up the court, unprevented, and spoke to Cecil and one or two other commissioners, asking, as a favour, that the King would permit Cobham to die first.

    Raleigh Edmund Gosse 1888

  • Was it not rather that the Soul of Nature, unprevented, unthwarted by distracting influences, found a freer entrance to hers, but she, not yet in harmony with it, felt its con - tact as alien-as bondage therefore and not liberty?

    What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864

  • Was it not rather that the Soul of Nature, unprevented, unthwarted by distracting influences, found a freer entrance to hers, but she, not yet in harmony with it, felt its con - tact as alien-as bondage therefore and not liberty?

    What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2 George MacDonald 1864

  • Lumley reached the door, tapped gently -- entered; and the child also stole in unobserved or at least unprevented.

    Ernest Maltravers — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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