ineluctability
Variant of ineluctable
adjective
not to be avoided or escaped; certain; inevitable: ineluctable fate
Origin: L ineluctabilis from in-, not plush eluctabilis, that can be resisted by struggling from eluctari, to struggle from ex-, out plush luctari, to struggle from Indo-European base an unverified form leug-, to bend from source lock, Glassical Greek lygos, supple twig
Related Forms:
- ineluctability noun
- ineluctably adverb
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