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Definition of Inexorability
1. Noun. Mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up. "The relentlessness or their pursuit"
Generic synonyms: Mercilessness, Unmercifulness
Derivative terms: Inexorable, Inexorable, Inexorable, Relentless, Relentless
Definition of Inexorability
1. n. The quality of being inexorable, or unyielding to entreaty.
Definition of Inexorability
1. Noun. The quality or state of being inexorable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inexorability
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inexorability
Literary usage of Inexorability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Her Royal Highness Woman and His Majesty by Max O'Rell (1901)
"—The inexorability of the virtuous woman. MAN is capable of love as earnestly as
woman is; but love is not the whole business of his life, ..."
2. Criticism on Contemporary Thought and Thinkers by Richard Holt Hutton (1894)
"Thought undoubtedly does correct, and correct with most salutary inexorability,
the illusions of feeling. And, again, feeling does correct, and correct with ..."
3. Horizons: A Book of Criticism by Francis Hackett (1918)
"Mrs. Katherine Fullerton Gerould goes one better than Mrs. Wharton when she wants
inexorability. She also resorts to New Englanders but she transplants them ..."
4. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"But capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its
own negation. It is the negation of negation. This does not re-establish ..."
5. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1887)
"... God imparts to civilization, walking over him and crushing him with I know
not what peacefulness in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. ..."
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