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implacable

/ɪmˈplækəbəl/ adjective C2
  1. Not able to be placated or appeased.
  2. Impossible to prevent or stop; inexorable, unrelenting, unstoppable.
  3. Adamant; immovable.
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He imagined that some secret society, some implacable organization, was on Douglas’s track, which would never rest until it killed him.
The Valley of Fear, p. 50 · C1
He renewed against Danglars, Fernand, and Villefort the oath of implacable vengeance he had made in his dungeon.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 233 · C1
“Implacable resentment _is_ a shade in a character.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 64 · B2
When Franz had finished reading this account, so dreadful for a son; when Valentine, pale with emotion, had wiped away a tear; when Villefort, trembling, and crouched in a corner, had endeavored to lessen the storm by supplicating glances at the implacable old man,—
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 775 · C1

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