Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not eludible; not to be eluded or escaped.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Incapable of being eluded or evaded; unvoidable.

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  • adjective Incapable of being eluded or evaded

Etymologies

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Examples

  • But the Madame concluded, I have faith that certain ineludible and fundamental principles are again emerging regnant and that self-interest, I repeat self-interest, of the superpowers will insure wiser and thought-out decisions.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • On it, someone has daubed the ineludible, monstrous question: Why do I do this every day?

    the currents of dread N A 2008

  • "Is that reply," he asked in a "got-him-this-time" manner, "given by reason of freedom of choice or ineludible necessity?"

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917 Various

  • The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust.

    The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

  • "What right have you to ask that bright and happy girl -- any girl -- to share the uncertainties, the parsimony, the ineludible struggle of your disappointing life?"

    A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

  • He felt as never before the ineludible loneliness of the ranger's life.

    Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West Hamlin Garland 1900

  • The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust.

    Stories of Mystery Various 1885

  • Lord Mergwain made no answer, but in his silence seemed to be making up his mind to the ineludible.

    Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

  • The Crimson Hand expressed the ineludible gripe, in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their

    Mosses from an Old Manse 1846

  • The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust.

    The Birthmark 1846

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