From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
[1913 Webster]
You are more inhuman, more inexorable,
O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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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