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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ineluctābilis. By surface analysis, in- + éluctable.
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Adjective
inéluctable (plural inéluctables)
- ineluctable; inevitable
- Synonyms: inévitable, inempêchable, inexorable
- Antonym: éluctable
1949, Simone de Beauvoir, chapter 1, in Le Deuxième Sexe:Dans ces phrases et d’autres analogues, l’homme affirme une fois de plus avec une arrogante naïveté que sa présence en ce monde est un fait inéluctable et un droit, celle de la femme un simple accident : mais c’est un accident bienheureux.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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