- Inevitability
- Inevitability In*ev`i*ta*bil"i*ty, n. [Cf. F. in['e]vitabilit['e].] Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. --Shelford. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Inevitability
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