Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being inexorable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being inexorable.
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- noun The quality 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the preface to her book The Court Jew (1950), Stern-Taeubler charged her fellow Jews in the aftermath of World War II to use the “tragedy and inexorableness of our present experience … to view our past more objectively than before … [because] understand [ing] our road through the centuries can make our destiny easier to bear.”
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Only when life is lived close to the senses, when the intelligence is engaged immediately on what is yielded to man through the body, is the paradox of sadness in created beauty brought home in all its delicacy and inexorableness.
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And he laughed, as the thought went home; laughed at the irony of fate and its inexorableness; laughed at his own defeat and his nearness to a barred Paradise.
Initials Only 2003
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Grace, in reply, wept and wondered at the request, bemoaned the inexorableness of the law; and was astonished that Lily had not realized the exact similarity of their positions.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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Grace, in reply, wept and wondered at the request, bemoaned the inexorableness of the law; and was astonished that Lily had not realized the exact similarity of their positions.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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Whatever perplexity he felt as to the inexorableness of her course—however little he penetrated its motive—she saw that it unmistakably tended to strengthen her hold over him.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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Whatever perplexity he felt as to the inexorableness of her course—however little he penetrated its motive—she saw that it unmistakably tended to strengthen her hold over him.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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Whatever perplexity he felt as to the inexorableness of her course—however little he penetrated its motive—she saw that it unmistakably tended to strengthen her hold over him.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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Grace, in reply, wept and wondered at the request, bemoaned the inexorableness of the law; and was astonished that Lily had not realized the exact similarity of their positions.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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The inevitableness of the desolation threatened, and the inexorableness of God in the execution of it, verse 1, is the third thing considerable: "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people."
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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