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Definition of Inexorable

1. Adjective. Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty. "The stern demands of parenthood"

2. Adjective. Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason. "An intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"

Definition of Inexorable

1. a. Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge.

Definition of Inexorable

1. Adjective. Unable to be persuaded; relentless; unrelenting ¹

2. Adjective. Impossible to stop or prevent; inevitable ¹

3. Adjective. Adamant; severe ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inexorable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inexorable

inexhaustibility inexhaustible inexhaustibleness inexhaustibly inexhaustive inexist inexistant inexisted inexistence inexistences

inexistent inexisting inexists inexorabilities inexorability inexorable inexorableness inexorably inexpansible inexpectable

inexpectant inexpectation inexpected inexpectedly inexpedience inexpediences inexpediencies inexpediency inexpedient inexpediently

Literary usage of Inexorable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Starved Rock by Edgar Lee Masters (1919)
"Inexorable DEITIES Deities! Inexorable revealers, Give me strength to endure The gifts of the Muses, Daughters of Memory. When the sky is blue as Minerva's ..."

2. The Life of John Henry, Cardinal Newman: Based on His Private Journals and by Wilfrid Philip Ward, ( (1912)
"Take his "inexorable logic"—now how unreal this term is, when you come to particularize. Supposing a man tells me that for certain he will call on me today ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... but neither is there any breath of warm life; the conception of an inscrutable and inexorable omnipotence approaches the lifelessness of Fate. ..."

4. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"He had at this date recently married Euphemia Gray, under pressure from his inexorable mother. This was a most unhappy union, and in 1854 it was nullified, ..."

5. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"The young girl implored to be excused from this appalling duty, but her mother was inexorable, and the unfortunate Josepha, trembling with fear, ..."

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