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Webster 1913 Edition


Inexorable

In-ex′o-ra-ble

,
Adj.
[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; – of people and impersonal forces;
as, an
inexorable
prince or tyrant; an
inexorable
judge; the
inexorable
advance of a glacier.
“Inexorable equality of laws.”
Gibbon.
“Death’s inexorable doom.”
Dryden.
You are more inhuman, more
inexorable
,
O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Inexorable

INEX'ORABLE

,
Adj.
[L. inexorabilis; in and exorabilis, from exoro, to entreat; ex and oro, to pray.]
1.
Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; too firm and determined in purpose to yield to supplication; as an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge.
2.
Unyielding; that cannot be made to bend.
Inexorable equality of laws.