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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inevitably \In*ev"i*ta*bly\, adverb Without possibility of escape or evasion; unavoidably; certainly.
Inevitably thou shalt die. --Milton.
How inevitably does immoderate laughter end in a sigh! --South.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
inevitably
adverb
1: in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: {necessarily}, {of necessity}, {needs}]
2: by necessity; "the new council was inescapably of political meaning" [syn: {inescapably}, {ineluctably}, {unavoidably}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "inevitably": accordingly, and so, as a consequence, as a result, certainly, consequently, fatefully, finally, inconsequence, indefeasibly, ineluctably, inescapably, inevasibly, inexorably, inflexibly, irrevocably, it follows that, naturally, naturellement, necessarily, of course, of necessity, perforce, relentlessly, surely, therefore, unavoidably, uncontrollably, unpreventably, unyieldingly
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