Synonyms for inexorableness
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : in-ek-ser-uh-buhl |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈɛk sər ə bəl |
Top 10 synonyms for inexorableness
Définition of inexorableness
Origin :- 1550s, from Middle French inexorable and directly from Latin inexorabilis "that cannot be moved by entreaty," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + exorabilis "able to be entreated," from exorare "to prevail upon," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + orare "pray" (see orator). Related: Inexorably; inexorability.
- noun stubbornness
- It seems to have the quality of inexorableness that duty has.
- Extract from : « The World I Live In » by Helen Keller
- She would have exulted in making them feel his inexorableness.
- Extract from : « The Narrow House » by Evelyn Scott
- The inexorableness of a great will was present in the room as an actual thing.
- Extract from : « The Magnificent Adventure » by Emerson Hough
- And then, in a sudden flash of illumination, he saw precisely wherein that sense of inexorableness lay.
- Extract from : « Antony Gray,--Gardener » by Leslie Moore
- That doctrine, however, does not go well together with the belief in the universality and inexorableness of suffering.
- Extract from : « History of Religion » by Allan Menzies
- It was always—punctually, inevitably, with the inexorableness of a mechanical law—it was always the wrong thing that struck him.
- Extract from : « Tales Of Men And Ghosts » by Edith Wharton
- He had known nothing of the bitterness of defeat, the losing battle with fate, the inexorableness of bereavement.
- Extract from : « A History of American Literature Since 1870 » by Fred Lewis Pattee
- It was he, in his inexorableness, close shut up against any appeal or argument, that was the superior now.
- Extract from : « Salem Chapel, v. 2/2 » by Mrs. Oliphant
- The inexorableness of Dante is nowhere more dreadful than in the eighth Canto of the Inferno.
- Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature » by John Addington Symonds
- He will defend the inexorableness of his reasoning, but the premises may change.
- Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
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