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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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; as an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge. ``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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: inexorable adj 1: 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}]
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