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inexorable (encz) | inexorable,nesmiřitelný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
inexorable (encz) | inexorable,neúprosný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Inexorable (gcide) | Inexorable \In*ex"o*ra*ble\, a. [L. inexorabilis: cf. F.
inexorable. See In- not, and Exorable, Adore.]
Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm;
determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless;
-- of people and impersonal forces; as, an inexorable prince
or tyrant; an inexorable judge; the inexorable advance of a
glacier. "Inexorable equality of laws." --Gibbon. "Death's
inexorable doom." --Dryden.
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You are more inhuman, more inexorable,
O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania. --Shak.
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inexorable (wn) | inexorable
adj 1: not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;
"grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final
hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty";
"relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of
parenthood" [syn: grim, inexorable, relentless,
stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]
2: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is
adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was
inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an
intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"
[syn: adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent] |
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inexorable (encz) | inexorable,nesmiřitelný adj: Zdeněk Brožinexorable,neúprosný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
inexorableness (encz) | inexorableness, n: |
Inexorableness (gcide) | Inexorableness \In*ex"o*ra*ble*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being inexorable. --Chillingworth.
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inexorable (wn) | inexorable
adj 1: not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;
"grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final
hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty";
"relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of
parenthood" [syn: grim, inexorable, relentless,
stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]
2: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is
adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was
inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an
intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"
[syn: adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent] |
inexorableness (wn) | inexorableness
n 1: mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent
or let up; "the relentlessness or their pursuit" [syn:
relentlessness, inexorability, inexorableness] |
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