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English Dictionary: inexorable	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inexorable adj 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" Synonym(s): grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "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 tendency" Synonym(s): adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inexorable \Inex"orable\, 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. [bd]Inexorable equality of laws.[b8] --Gibbon. [bd]Death's inexorable doom.[b8] --Dryden. You are more inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania. --Shak.