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INEVITABLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In such a manner as could not be otherwise
Example:
we must needs by objective
Synonyms:
inevitably; necessarily; needs; of necessity
Classified under:
Pertainym:
inevitable (incapable of being avoided or prevented)
Sense 2
Meaning:
By necessity
Example:
the situation slid inescapably toward disaster
Synonyms:
ineluctably; inescapably; inevitably; unavoidably
Classified under:
Pertainym:
inevitable (incapable of being avoided or prevented)
Context examples:
He wished to persuade Mr. Woodhouse, as well as Emma, to join the party; and he knew that to have any of them sitting down out of doors to eat would inevitably make him ill.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
What she would engage to do towards augmenting their income was next to be considered; and here it plainly appeared, that though Edward was now her only son, he was by no means her eldest; for while Robert was inevitably endowed with a thousand pounds a-year, not the smallest objection was made against Edward's taking orders for the sake of two hundred and fifty at the utmost; nor was anything promised either for the present or in future, beyond the ten thousand pounds, which had been given with Fanny.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She and Mary were actually setting forward for the Great House, where, as she afterwards learnt, they must inevitably have found him, when they were stopped by the eldest boy's being at that moment brought home in consequence of a bad fall.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He said, I differed indeed from other Yahoos, being much more cleanly, and not altogether so deformed; but, in point of real advantage, he thought I differed for the worse: that my nails were of no use either to my fore or hinder feet; as to my fore feet, he could not properly call them by that name, for he never observed me to walk upon them; that they were too soft to bear the ground; that I generally went with them uncovered; neither was the covering I sometimes wore on them of the same shape, or so strong as that on my feet behind: that I could not walk with any security, for if either of my hinder feet slipped, I must inevitably fall.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Mrs. Morland was a very good woman, and wished to see her children everything they ought to be; but her time was so much occupied in lying-in and teaching the little ones, that her elder daughters were inevitably left to shift for themselves; and it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had by nature nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books—or at least books of information—for, provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
It followed inevitably upon the work, as the night follows upon the day.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It was patent that this terrible man was no ignorant clod, such as one would inevitably suppose him to be from his exhibitions of brutality.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I had some trouble in finding an attendant for her, as it was necessary to select one on whose fidelity dependence could be placed; for her ravings would inevitably betray my secret: besides, she had lucid intervals of days—sometimes weeks—which she filled up with abuse of me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Used only to a large house himself, and without ever thinking how many advantages and accommodations were attached to its size, he could be no judge of the privations inevitably belonging to a small one.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Her mind was inevitably at liberty; her thoughts could not be chained elsewhere; and the past and the future, on a subject so interesting, must be before her, must force her attention, and engross her memory, her reflection, and her fancy.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
