inevitableness
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The electrocution in the prolog gives the subsequent action some of the grim inevitableness of last season's The Last Mile.
From Time Magazine Archive
The talk, you see, went high and low and came to no conclusion; but I think that on the whole Wilkins did succeed in shaking Boon’s half-mystical confidence in the inevitableness of human wisdom.
From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
As with the physical, so with the ethical; all religions teach the inevitableness of punishment and reward, with which deeds are necessarily and indissolubly connected.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
The interest of the drama is in a great measure the picture of his temptation and remorse, his sense of his treachery and of the inevitableness of his chastisement.
From Views and Reviews by Henry James
It is no tearer, no eradicator, no falterer, who in this frightfully beautiful bustle of passion and inevitableness has given a picture of his own dissoluteness.
From The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood by Frank Wedekind
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