Both Uses of
inevitable
in
David Copperfield
- …of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.†
Chpt 1-3
- I had put them at a distance, and accepted my inevitable place.†
Chpt 61-62 *
Definition:
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(inevitable) certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)