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ineluctable, a.|ɪnɪˈlʌktəb(ə)l|
Also 7 -ible.
[ad. L. inēluctābil-is, f. in- (in-3) + ēluctābil-is, f. ēluctā-rī to struggle out. Cf. F. inéluctable (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
From which one cannot escape by struggling; not to be escaped from.
1623Cockeram, Ineluctable, not to bee ouercome by any paines. 1629Jackson Creed vi. ii. xx. §2 The titles of fate were anciently..unavoidable, insuperable, inflexible, ineluctable. 1659Pearson Creed 495 As if the damnation of all sinners now were ineluctable and eternall. 1765Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 3/1 That trouble and confusion which must probably attend these ineluctable events. 1880Swinburne Thalassius 222 All glories of all storms of the air that fell, Prone, ineluctable. 1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere iv. xxix. 366 She and he were alike helpless—both struggling in the grip of some force outside themselves, inexorable, ineluctable.
Hence ineˈluctably adv., irresistibly, so that one cannot escape from its grip. Also ineluctaˈbility, the condition of being ineluctable.
1657T. Peirce God's Decrees 62 That..doth prevail upon the will not ineluctably, but infallibly. 1922Joyce Ulysses 214 That lies in space which I in time must come to, ineluctably. 1939― Finnegans Wake i. 120 Those throne open doubleyous..reminding uus ineluctably of nature at her naturalest. 1943Mind LII. 11 The limitation of the ability of a man to achieve salvation..may be, and often is, hypostasized to seeming ineluctability. |