Both Uses of
inevitable
in
The Age of Innocence
- At the Century he had found Winsett again, and at the Knickerbocker the fashionable young men of his own set; and what with the hours dedicated to the law and those given to dining out or entertaining friends at home, with an occasional evening at the Opera or the play, the life he was living had still seemed a fairly real and inevitable sort of business.†
Chpt 21
- The bank had continued to take in money for a whole day after its failure was inevitable; and as many of its clients belonged to one or another of the ruling clans, Beaufort's duplicity seemed doubly cynical.†
Chpt 28 *
Definition:
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(inevitable) certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)