Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being implacable or inexorable; a state of irreconcilable enmity or anger.

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

  • noun The quality or state of being implacable.

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  • noun The quality or state of being implacable.

Etymologies

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From Old French, from Latin implacabilitas ("unappeasable")

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Examples

  • And with that kind of implacability and with that kind of terror from a terrorist regime par excellence, it simply has to go.

    CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2002 2002

  • The snow was coming down with the implacability of an Old Testament plague.

    'The Last Werewolf' 2011

  • There's this underlying idea of the implacability of the universe and the smallness of humanity.

    "The pitying smirk, the argument runs like clockwork." ellen_datlow 2009

  • Straightening, he lost the stony implacability, but a grim light still crouched in the corners of his eyes.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • But its provisions say less about the boldness of lawmakers than about the implacability of the status quo.

    Rahm's Education Promise 2011

  • Joe's position is that I don't look at the implacability of dollars: As he says, we have the amount we have.

    The Dance of Marriage: Who Does What? Katherine Rosman 2011

  • Straightening, he lost the stony implacability, but a grim light still crouched in the corners of his eyes.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Straightening, he lost the stony implacability, but a grim light still crouched in the corners of his eyes.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • The politics of Republican implacability are based on what might seem an obvious insight that competition is a zero-sum game.

    Endangered Species 2010

  • One lesson in particular that we have internalized is that the turn to radicalism in the late 1960s, while perhaps understandable given the implacability of powerholders and their continued resistance to change, nonetheless was a self-destructive tangent from which many on the left have yet to return.

    Freedom Schools— an exchange 2008

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