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inexorably

adverb

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Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɛk.sə.ɹə.bli/ / [ɪnˈɛɡ.zə.ɹə.bli]

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English inexorable Middle English -ly English -ly English inexorably From inexorable + -ly.

  1. In an inexorable manner; without the possibility of stopping or prevention.

    We watched as the storm clouds advanced inexorably closer to us.

    One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching express!