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.
My Boyhood Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1922
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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.
The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922
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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.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893
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When it came to housework, Mother possessed the quality called inevitableness to an extraordinary degree.
My Boyhood John Burroughs 1879
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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."
Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer
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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.
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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It lacks the note of inevitableness which is the final touchstone of tragic greatness.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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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
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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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.
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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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
The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889
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