Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being inevitable; inevitability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen; inevitability.
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- noun The characteristic of being
inevitable ;inevitability .
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- noun the quality of being unavoidable
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Examples
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When it came to housework, Mother possessed the quality called inevitableness to an extraordinary degree.
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The first and most obvious fact about the Duke was his independence, and what I may call his inevitableness of action.
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The first and most obvious fact about the Duke was his independence, and what I may call his inevitableness of action.
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When it came to housework, Mother possessed the quality called inevitableness to an extraordinary degree.
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The truth {164} concerning the "inevitableness" of sin was stated by our Lord when He said, "It must needs be that occasions" -- _viz. _, of stumbling -- "come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh."
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Maurice de Guérin's feverish ethereal charm; his account of the opposition _salons_ under the Empire -- they had all been elaborated in the course of years, till every word fitted and each point led to the next with the 'inevitableness' of true art.
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It lacks the note of inevitableness which is the final touchstone of tragic greatness.
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My temper and my courtesy scarcely serve me, my Lord, to reply to your assertion of the "inevitableness" that, while half of Great Britain is laid out in hunting-grounds for sport more savage than the Indians, the poor of our cities must be swept into incestuous heaps; or into dens and caves which are only tombs disquieted, so changing the whiteness of
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A visit of his youth to the Island grave of Chateaubriand; his early memories, as a poetical aspirant, of the magnificent flatteries by which Victor Hugo made himself the god of young romantic Paris; his talks with Montalembert in the days of _L'Avenir_; his memories of Lamennais 'sombre figure, of Maurice de Guérin's feverish ethereal charm; his account of the opposition _salons_ under the Empire -- they had all been elaborated in the course of years, till every word fitted and each point led to the next with the' inevitableness 'of true art.
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"inevitableness" which sometimes amounts to improbability, as in the case particularly of that most vivid and racy of books, _Cripps the
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