All 3 Uses of
inevitable
in
Great Expectations
- …exalted into the beneficent contriver of the whole occasion, actually took the top of the table; and, when he addressed them on the subject of my being bound, and had fiendishly congratulated them on my being liable to imprisonment if I played at cards, drank strong liquors, kept late hours or bad company, or indulged in other vagaries which the form of my indentures appeared to contemplate as next to inevitable, he placed me standing on a chair beside him to illustrate his remarks.†
Chpt 13
- We had a hot supper on the occasion, graced by the inevitable roast fowl, and we had some flip to finish with.†
Chpt 19 *
- It could not be done, and the attempt to do it would inevitably engender suspicion.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(inevitable) certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)