All 3 Uses of
inevitable
in
Mansfield Park
- The ruin of the play was to them a certainty: they felt the total destruction of the scheme to be inevitably at hand; while Mr. Yates considered it only as a temporary interruption, a disaster for the evening, and could even suggest the possibility of the rehearsal being renewed after tea, when the bustle of receiving Sir Thomas were over, and he might be at leisure to be amused by it.†
Chpt 19
- Mr. Yates had staid to see the destruction of every theatrical preparation at Mansfield, the removal of everything appertaining to the play: he left the house in all the soberness of its general character; and Sir Thomas hoped, in seeing him out of it, to be rid of the worst object connected with the scheme, and the last that must be inevitably reminding him of its existence.†
Chpt 20
- She did it with wretched feelings, but it was inevitable.†
Chpt 36 *
Definition:
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(inevitable) certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)