Today's Word
implacable \im-PLAK-uh-bull\, adjective:Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable foe.
"For it is my office to prosecute the guilty with implacable zeal.-- Paola Capriolo, Floria Tosca (translated by Liz Heron)
"He... then continued on up the road, his shoulders bent beneath the implacable sun.-- Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Fencing Master
"She conducted her life and her work with all the steady and implacable seriousness of a steamroller.-- "The Stein Salon Was The First Museum of Modern Art", New York Times, December 1, 1968
Implacable ultimately comes from Latin implacabilis, from in-, not + placabilis, placable, from placo, placare, to soothe, calm, appease.
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