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Definition
certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)
- ...they rather dreaded the after-dinner speech of their host (an inevitable item).1.1 -- Book 1 Chapter 1 -- A Long-expected Party (38% in)
inevitable = certain to happen
- As a guide I had only my own feelings for what is appealing or moving, and for many the guide was inevitably often at fault.Forward (42% in)
- As the story grew it put down roots (into the past) and threw out unexpected branches: but its main theme was settled from the outset by the inevitable choice of the Ring as the link between it and _The Hobbit.Forward (54% in)
- It was written long before the foreshadow of 1939 had yet become a threat of inevitable disaster, and from that point the story would have developed along essentially the same lines, if that disaster had been averted.Forward (56% in)
There are no more uses of "inevitable" in The Fellowship of the Ring.
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