inevitable

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INEV'ITABLE, adjective [Latin inevitabilis; in and evitabilis, from evito, to shun.] Not to be avoided; that cannot be shunned; unavoidable; that admits of no escape or evasion. To die is the inevitable lot of man; we are all subjected to many inevitable calamities.
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