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INEXORABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
Example:
an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency
Synonyms:
adamant; adamantine; inexorable; intransigent
Classified under:
Similar:
inflexible (incapable of change)
Derivation:
inexorableness (mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
Example:
the stern demands of parenthood
Synonyms:
grim; inexorable; relentless; stern; unappeasable; unforgiving; unrelenting
Classified under:
Similar:
implacable (incapable of being placated)
Derivation:
inexorability; inexorableness (mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up)
Context examples:
Holmes sat in a great, old-fashioned chair, his inexorable eyes gleaming out of his haggard face.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I seem to be in the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight and no precautions can guard against.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And so it went, the inexorable elimination of the superfluous.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The remembrance of this, in connexion with my former thought, however, haunted me at intervals, even until the inexorable end came at its appointed time.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Diana Rivers had designated her brother "inexorable as death."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenances, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you—he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Holmes’s cold and inexorable manner showed the secretary that it was useless to argue with him.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was stretched Sarah Reed's once robust and active frame, rigid and still: her eye of flint was covered with its cold lid; her brow and strong traits wore yet the impress of her inexorable soul.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But the old man decidedly refused, thinking himself bound in honour to my friend, who, when he found the father inexorable, quitted his country, nor returned until he heard that his former mistress was married according to her inclinations.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
You would think him gentle, yet in some things he is inexorable as death; and the worst of it is, my conscience will hardly permit me to dissuade him from his severe decision: certainly, I cannot for a moment blame him for it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
