Both Uses of
implacable
in
The House of Mirth
- She had once picked up, in a house where she was staying, a translation of the EUMENIDES, and her imagination had been seized by the high terror of the scene where Orestes, in the cave of the oracle, finds his implacable huntresses asleep, and snatches an hour's repose.†
Chpt 1.13
- Lily hesitated: her aunt's implacable memory had never been more inconvenient.†
Chpt 1.15 *
Definition:
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(implacable) not capable of being placated (appeased)