S vs Ineluctable - What's the difference?
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The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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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:
* 1797 , Alexander Shiels, A Hind Let Loose , Calton (Glasgow), page 541:
* 1894 , , The Ebb-Tide , chapter 10:
* 1922 , , Ulysses , Episode 3—Proteus:
* 1993 , Will Self, My Idea of Fun :
* 2007 , Marina Hyde, "
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adjective ineluctable is
ineluctable; inevitable.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}ineluctable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- They have come under the yoke of ineluctable slavery.
- 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.
- I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable , call it back.
- Out in the street, under the reddening afternoon sun, a spectacle of ineluctable commerce greeted her.
The artists formerly known as huge carbon footprints," Guardian Unlimited (UK), 7 July:
- The first will be the ineluctable fact of climate change.