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Definition of Ineluctability
1. Noun. The quality of being impossible to avoid or evade.
Definition of Ineluctability
1. Noun. The state or condition of being ineluctable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ineluctability
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ineluctability
Literary usage of Ineluctability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Contemporary Literature by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"... to prove the ineluctability of flesh and fate and instinct and environment—he,
with aristocratic contempt of them and their formulas and their works, ..."
2. The Bookman (1906)
"... considerable mass of little moral poems dealing with the vicissitudes of
fortune and the ineluctability of death, and Villon knew Philippe de Vitry, ..."
3. Hostage to Revolution: Gorbachev and Soviet Security Policy, 1985-1991 by Coit D. Blacker (1993)
"On the ineluctability of conflict between the two world systems, the Soviets also
succeeded in retaining the formula, even as they abandoned much of its ..."
4. Latin America Today by Pablo González Casanova (1993)
"155 There is a crisis of the idea of the ineluctability of progress, for one
must "be open beyond the boundaries imposed by progress's metaphysics. ..."
5. Multivariate Analysis and Its Applications by Theodore Wilbur Anderson, Kʻai-tʻai Fang, Ingram Olkin (1994)
"... describing patterns of compositional variability, Math. Geol. 22, 487-512.
AITCHISON, J. (1991). Delusions of uniqueness and ineluctability, Math. Geol. ..."
6. The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1909)
"... and haunted on the other hand by the ineluctability of the bankruptcy, did
not allow themselves to be daunted. When the enormous majority of the ..."
7. A History of French Literature by Charles Henry Conrad Wright (1912)
"... in the vein of stoic declamation, like the letter of Plutarch to his wife and
that of Servius Sulpicius Rufus to Cicero on the ineluctability of death: ..."
8. A History of French Literature by Charles Henry Conrad Wright (1912)
"Yet, in the midst of his eulogy, Bossuet never forgot the great laws of the world,
the ways of Providence, the ineluctability of Death. ..."
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