Adjective

(en adjective)

Impossible to avoid or escape; inescapable, irresistible.

* 1655 , Thomas Pierce, A Correct Copy of Some Notes concerning Gods Decrees , "A Paraenesis to the Reader," chapter 4, item 50:

God indeed (if it please him) can by his absolute power over his Creature, make him act this thing, or take that thing, by ineluctable Necessity, and whether he will or no.

* 1797 , Alexander Shiels, A Hind Let Loose , Calton (Glasgow), page 541:

They have come under the yoke of ineluctable slavery.

* 1894 , , The Ebb-Tide , chapter 10:

He was aware instantly of an opposition in his members, unanimous and invincible, clinging to life with a single and fixed resolve, finger by finger, sinew by sinew; something that was at once he and not he—at once within and without him;—the shutting of some miniature valve in his brain, which a single manly thought should suffice to open—and the grasp of an external fate ineluctable as gravity.

* 1922 , , Ulysses , Episode 3—Proteus:

I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable , call it back.

* 1993 , Will Self, My Idea of Fun :

Out in the street, under the reddening afternoon sun, a spectacle of ineluctable commerce greeted her.

* 2007 , Marina Hyde, " The artists formerly known as huge carbon footprints," Guardian Unlimited (UK), 7 July:

The first will be the ineluctable fact of climate change.

Adjective

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defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.

''The construction flaw is incorrigible ; any attempt to amend it would cause a complete collapse.

incurably depraved; not reformable.

''His dark soul was too incorrigible to repent, even at his execution.

impervious to correction by punishment or pain.

''The imp is incorrigible : his bottom is still red from his last spanking when he plans the next prank.

unmanageable.

* {{quote-news

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determined, unalterable, hence impossible to improve upon.

''The laws of nature and mathematics are incorrigible .

(archaic) incurable.