Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or quality of being inexorable or unyielding to entreaty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being inexorable, or unyielding to entreaty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of being
inexorable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up
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Examples
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And one thing I have learned is that there is a certain inexorability to them.
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What London 2012 wants is a great whirring delivery machine, driven by the inexorability of the project's deadline, where as many details as possible are determined in advance by specifications and regulations.
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And indeed, there are no sub-plots, not much in the way of distraction, as the story unfolds with a certain inexorability.
The Magnificent Ambersons « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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What made the drama so compelling was its inexorability and its absence of hope, and a feelgood get-out clause would be lame and unrealistic.
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The God of the Gaps sneer is invoked to imply the inexorability of materialism as a complete explanation in natural science.
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Hadrian's letter to young Marcus is being written at the end of his life, and so with a sure grasp of the inexorability of "Time, the Devourer."
Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor Joseph Epstein 2010
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Almost 2,000 years further on, however, and still the biographies come, with all the remorseless inexorability of a Macedonian phalanx advancing through the dust of Mesopotamia.
The Greatest of Them All Tom Holland 2011
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I feel the golden chain of a reinforcing inexorability.
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Having given these deadlines the stamp of policy, they develop a sort of inexorability of their own, as if some omniscient force had taken charge, as if some higher power had taken over to save us from our follies.
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Having given these deadlines the stamp of policy, they develop a sort of inexorability of their own, as if some omniscient force had taken charge, as if some higher power had taken over to save us from our follies.
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