Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inexorable"
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) 1.7 (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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