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Inexorable

created by Webster 1913

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:24:54

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; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge.

"Inexorable equality of laws." Gibbon. "Death's inexorable doom."

Dryden.

You are more inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania. Shak.

 

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