Inexorable Definition

ĭn-ĕksər-ə-bəl
adjective
Impossible to stop, alter, or resist; inevitable.
An inexorable fate; an inexorable law of nature.
American Heritage
That cannot be moved or influenced by persuasion or entreaty; unrelenting.
Webster's New World
That cannot be altered, checked, etc.
Their inexorable fate.
Webster's New World

Adamant; severe.

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Origin of Inexorable

  • From Middle French inexorable, from Latin inexorabilis, from in- (“not”) + exorabilis (“that may be moved or persuaded by entreaty”), from exorare (“to move by entreaty, to gain by entreaty”), from ex (“out”) + orare (“to pray”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin inexōrābilis in- not in–1 exōrābilis pliant (from exōrāre to prevail upon) (ex- intensive pref. ex–) (ōrāre to argue)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Inexorable Sentence Examples

  • Napoleon was inexorable in his demands, and Pius VII.

  • This historical process seems to follow an almost inexorable logic.

  • The seemingly inexorable rise in energy prices has been brought into sharp public focus.

  • Although groups have tried to stop the behemoth of the Euro state, the beast is now in existence and its growth is inexorable.

  • But they forget that France was bound by inexorable laws of human evolution to obey the impulse which communicated itself to every form of art in Europe.

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