Crossword clues for ineluctable
ineluctable
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ineluctable \In`e*luc"ta*ble\, a. [L. ineluctabilis; pref. in-
not + eluctabilis to be surmounted, fr. eluctari to struggle
out of, to surmount: cf. F. in['e]luctable. See Eluctate.]
Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inescapable;
inevitable.
--Bp. Pearson.
The ineluctable conditions of matter.
--Hamerton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"not to be escaped by struggling," 1620s, from Latin ineluctabilis "unavoidable, inevitable," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + eluctari "to struggle out of," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + luctari "to struggle" (see reluctance).
Wiktionary
a. Impossible to avoid or escape; inescapable, irresistible.
WordNet
adj. impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"; "an ineluctable destiny"; "an unavoidable accident" [syn: inescapable, unavoidable]
Usage examples of "ineluctable".
Watch, she had somehow distorted the ineluctable sequences of gravity and time.
Their peculiar nature did not protect them from strain and limitation: the necessary, ineluctable, and crippling strictures of Time.
Their work demystifies structuralism and all the philosophical, sociological, and political conceptions that make the fixity of the epistemological frame an ineluctable point of reference.
Well, if that modernity has come to an end, and if the modern nation-state that served as the ineluctable condition for imperialist domination and innumerable wars is disappearing from the world scene, then good riddance!
Philosophers disputed where this mediation was situated and what metaphysical level it occupied, but it was fundamental that in some way it be defined as an ineluctable condition of all human action, art, and association.
This transcendent political apparatus corresponds to the necessary and ineluctable transcendent conditions that modern philosophy posed at the pinnacle of its development, in Kantian schematism and Hegelian dialectics.
According to Stalin, nations are immediately revolutionary, and revolution means modernization: nationalism is an ineluctable stage in development.
This ineluctable aspect of accumulation precedes the question of the proletarianization of the liberal era.
During the period of de-colonization and after, the nation appeared as the necessary vehicle for political modernization and hence the ineluctable path toward freedom and self-determination.
Establishing and making public the truth of the recent pastattributing responsibility to state officials for specific acts and in some cases exacting retribution-appears here as the ineluctable precondition for any democratic future.
The most important political stake for these authors in the question of economic expansion is to demonstrate the ineluctable relationship between capitalism and imperialism.
It knows only an inside, a vital and ineluctable participation in the set of social structures, with no possibility of transcending them.
I am constantly tempted to shirk the details, and to let hints stand for actual facts and ineluctable deductions.
It was, very clearly, the blasphemous city of the mirage in stark, objective, and ineluctable reality.
Exhausted, I put palms against it and felt perdurable nothingness warm as though it were animate flesh, vibrant with some ineluctable life, impenetrable as granite.