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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inexorable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
inexorable logicformal (= logic in which one thing leads to another in a way that cannot be avoided)
▪ By the inexorable logic of war, the bombings provoked an even stronger response.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
logic
▪ The inexorable logic does not, however, establish that the result is morally or socially desirable.
▪ Up to the point of overload and pressure, you might say that the inexorable logic of the Hay Fever Theory does hold.
rise
▪ The most famous face of all has slipped in during the seemingly inexorable rise in predicted numbers of Conservative seats.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His jealousy sets him on an inexorable course towards murder.
▪ the inexorable decline in Britain's manufacturing industry
▪ the inexorable progress of rain forest destruction
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inexorable

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.

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inexorable

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.

Wiktionary
inexorable

a. 1 Unable to be persuaded; relentless; unrelenting. 2 Impossible to stop or prevent; inevitable. 3 adamant; severe.

WordNet
inexorable
  1. adj. 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, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]

  2. not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to persuasion; "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 tendancy" [syn: adamant, adamantine, intransigent]

Usage examples of "inexorable".

Our eyes lingered as long as possible and with all eagerness upon these meadows and marshes which the poet has made immortal, and we regretted that inexorable Baddeck would not permit us to be pilgrims for a day in this Acadian land.

But a fall from there would be inexorable, and we would have fallen away from the Beanstalk, with no chance to reconnect to it.

Then a searcher would still be wandering through space thirty or forty billion years in the future, when the universe collapsed toward its inexorable endpoint of infinite pressure and temperature.

I relished the sting of a line-drive into well-oiled leather, the inexorable trajectory of a flyball as it plummeted toward a waiting glove.

Settembrini, had held more than one lunatic to temporary self-control, simply by opposing to his humbuggery an air of inexorable reason.

Millions died but world population continued its inexorable increase toward the Malthusian limits of starvation, plague, and war.

Relentlessly scrounging resources and working nonstop, the remaining machines had rebuilt and reasserted their complete control over the planet in less than a year, like an inexorable tide erasing footprints on a beach.

While my millions of brethren and sistren chew, chew, chew their way through whatever offal comes along, inexorable but mindless, I preserve my energies for the sweetest meat: the carcass tainted by fear.

The tyrants, who would have disgraced the society of gods and men, were thrown headlong, by the inexorable Nemesis, into the Tartarean abyss.

It was moving up through the mountain with inexorable determination, cutting a path for itself with its broad stubby boulderlike teeth: gnawing on rock, digesting it, excreting it as moist sand at the far end of a massive fleshy body thirty man-lengths long.

Delight is to him--a far, far upward, and inward delight-- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.

Is an owned flaw in her consistency Men love to dub Dame Nature--that lay-shape They use to hang phenomena upon-- Whose deftest mothering in fairest sphere Is girt about by terms inexorable!

In such a state, should you find me inexorable, you would very likely give way to excesses which would afterwards cause you deep sorrow.

I seem to be in the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight and no precautions can guard against.

Callista the slow, inexorable deadening of normal physical responses, the numbing of bodily reflexes, the hardening of tensions in mind and body into a rigid armoring.