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inexorable
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synonyms: recalcitrant, obdurate, intractable, intransigent, ineluctable, implacable, renitent ???
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Definition:1. impossible to prevent2. not able to be persuaded, even via importunate entreating
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Uses:
she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen. It struck Goldstein’s nose and bounced off; the voice continued inexorably.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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Against these the condemnation of society is inexorable, and if it is believed that the illness has been dangerous and protracted, it is almost impossible for a woman to recover her former position in society.
Samuel Butler. Erewhon
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DAN. Ah! you crocodile, that flatters people to strangle them!
ANG. Grant me this favour.
DAN. Not a jot. I am inexorable.
Molière. GEORGE DANDIN; OR, THE ABASHED HUSBAND
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It had fasincated me as a child of two—the inexorable diminishment—the sense of inevitability.
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.196 (1939)
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Buck was inexorable. Mercy was a thing reserved for gentler climes.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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That inexorable, eternal, distant, and unknown the presence of which he had felt continually all his life— was now near to him and, by the strange lightness he experienced, almost comprehensible and palpable . . .
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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