Synonyms for inexorableness


Grammar : Noun
Spell : in-ek-ser-uh-buhl
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈɛk sər ə bəl

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Définition of inexorableness

Origin :
  • 1550s, from Middle French inexorable and directly from Latin inexorabilis "that cannot be moved by entreaty," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + exorabilis "able to be entreated," from exorare "to prevail upon," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + orare "pray" (see orator). Related: Inexorably; inexorability.
  • noun stubbornness
Example sentences :
  • It seems to have the quality of inexorableness that duty has.
  • Extract from : « The World I Live In » by Helen Keller
  • She would have exulted in making them feel his inexorableness.
  • Extract from : « The Narrow House » by Evelyn Scott
  • The inexorableness of a great will was present in the room as an actual thing.
  • Extract from : « The Magnificent Adventure » by Emerson Hough
  • And then, in a sudden flash of illumination, he saw precisely wherein that sense of inexorableness lay.
  • Extract from : « Antony Gray,--Gardener » by Leslie Moore
  • That doctrine, however, does not go well together with the belief in the universality and inexorableness of suffering.
  • Extract from : « History of Religion » by Allan Menzies
  • It was always—punctually, inevitably, with the inexorableness of a mechanical law—it was always the wrong thing that struck him.
  • Extract from : « Tales Of Men And Ghosts » by Edith Wharton
  • He had known nothing of the bitterness of defeat, the losing battle with fate, the inexorableness of bereavement.
  • Extract from : « A History of American Literature Since 1870 » by Fred Lewis Pattee
  • It was he, in his inexorableness, close shut up against any appeal or argument, that was the superior now.
  • Extract from : « Salem Chapel, v. 2/2 » by Mrs. Oliphant
  • The inexorableness of Dante is nowhere more dreadful than in the eighth Canto of the Inferno.
  • Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature » by John Addington Symonds
  • He will defend the inexorableness of his reasoning, but the premises may change.
  • Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
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