Both Uses of
inevitable
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- To do this, a variety of improvements were necessary; some of these were inevitably at first expensive, so that in the first four years the office became above nine hundred pounds in debt to us.†
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- They alledg'd that the act was intended to load the proprietary estate in order to spare those of the people, and that if it were suffer'd to continue in force, and the proprietaries who were in odium with the people, left to their mercy in proportioning the taxes, they would inevitably be ruined.†
Definition:
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(inevitable) certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)