Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Implacability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being implacable; implacability.
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- noun The quality of being
implacable .
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Examples
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There is not a single instance in which any shadow of implacableness lurked for an enemy who had repented or fallen into misfortune; and if his resentment was constantly aflame against the ignoble, it instantly expired and changed into warm-hearted pity, when the ignoble became either penitent or miserable.
Voltaire 2007
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But yet I must say, that the family, by their persecutions of the dear lady at first, and by their implacableness afterwards, ought, at least, to share the blame with him.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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On the very occasion I have mentioned, (some new instances of implacableness from her friends,) the enclosed meditation will show how mildly, and yet how forcibly, she complains.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Harlowe; and had it not been for the implacableness and violence of her family (all resolved to push her upon a match as unworthy of her as hateful to her) she had still been happy.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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They had both been apprized of the new instances of implacableness in her friends, and of your persecutions: and the doctor said he would not for the world be either the unforgiving father of that lady, or the man who had brought her to this distress.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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I then told him of my sincere offers of marriage: ‘I made no difficulty, I said, to own my apprehensions, that my unhappy behaviour to her had greatly affected her: but that it was the implacableness of her friends that had thrown her into despair, and given her a contempt for life.’
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Indeed, if I had not undoubted reason, as I said, to believe the continuance of their antipathy to me, and implacableness to her, I should be apt to think there might be some foundation for my
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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But how, as I said in my former, could I sit down in quiet, when I knew how uneasy their implacableness made you? —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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She is very ill; the worse for some new instances of the implacableness of her relations.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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The implacableness of her stupid uncles is all mine.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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