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Inevitable   /ɪnˈɛvətəbəl/   Listen
adjective
Inevitable  adj.  
1.
Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain. "The inevitable hour." "It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things."
2.
Irresistible. "Inevitable charms."





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"Inevitable" Quotes from Famous Books



... just what I mean; that is just how it was with us,' said Rosa. 'You liked me very well, and you had grown used to me, and had grown used to the idea of our being married. You accepted the situation as an inevitable kind of thing, didn't you? It was to be, you thought, and ...
— The Mystery of Edwin Drood • Charles Dickens
... love because he stood to her as the living symbol of her daily inescapable servitude in this household. Jenny could never have felt that she would like to kill Pa. Emmy sometimes felt that. She at times, when he had been provoking or obtuse, so shook with hysterical anger, born of the inevitable days in his society and in the kitchen, that she could have thrown at him the battered pot which she carried, or could have pushed him passionately against the mantelpiece in her fierce hatred of his helplessness and his occasional perverse stupidity. He was rarely ...
— Nocturne • Frank Swinnerton
... naturally appeal are often restrained from sympathy by fears of vague speculative driftings and of transcendental emotionalism. Nor can it be doubted that such an attitude of aloofness is at once reasonable and inevitable. For a systematic exaltation of formless ecstasies, at the expense of sense and intellect, has a tendency to become an infirmity if it does not always betoken loss of mental balance. In order, therefore, to disarm natural prejudice, let an opening chapter be devoted to ...
— Nature Mysticism • J. Edward Mercer
... you will by then have seen your way to something more substantial, with a view to avoiding what we should all regret, but which I fear will otherwise become inevitable." ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... the ignorance which it disseminates, blasphemy, covetousness, bumptiousness, bad taste (and bad art and bad literature, to gratify it), every form of wrong-headedness and wrong-heartedness flourish like the seven plagues of Egypt. But it was all inevitable from the day that meddling German busybody invented printing—if not from the day his heathenish ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland


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