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Ineluctable   Listen
adjective
Ineluctable  adj.  Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inescapable; inevitable. "The ineluctable conditions of matter."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ineluctable" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... Consequently he had not found the exercise of judgment troublesome. His tendency, as regarded his own affairs, was to a definite promptness of decision, and there was an end of the matter. Others he seldom felt called upon to judge, but if the instance were ineluctable, he was prone to an amiable generosity. Ease of living does not breed in the mind a strongly defined philosophy. All that young Mr. Surtaine required of his fellow beings was that they should behave themselves ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... they command fair views of open country, denounce with prophetic fervour the perils which attend the growth of cities, they somewhat overlook the fact that the growth of cities is a sequence, alike ineluctable and pitiless, of the modern struggle for existence. One cannot be a lawyer, or a banker, a physician or a journalist, without neighbours. He can scarce be a literary man in perfect sylvan solitude, unless his work is of such quality—perhaps ...
— The Quest of the Simple Life • William J. Dawson



Words linked to "Ineluctable" :   inescapable, inevitable



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