Citations:implacable
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English citations of implacable
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- Impossible to prevent or stop; inexorable, unrelenting, unstoppable.
- 2011, James D. Hornfischer, “The Giants Ride”, in Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN; trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 2012, →ISBN, page 345:
- The battleships Washington and South Dakota pushed through the sea with an implacable ease.
- Adamant; immovable.
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, →OCLC, page 84:
- Indeed *Cain hated his Brother, becauſe his own works were evil, and his Brothers righteous; [marginal note *: 1 John 3. 12. Chriſtian clear of their blood if they periſh.]; and if thy Wife and Children have been offended with thee for this, they thereby ſhew themſelves to be implacable to †good; and thou haſt delivered thy ſoul from their blood. [marginal note †: Ezek[iel] 3. 19.]