Word of the Day
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
implacable
\im-PLAK-uh-bull\ , adjective;
1.
Not
placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified;
inexorable; as, an implacable foe.
Quotes:
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
Origin:
Implacable ultimately comes from Latin implacabilis, from in-, not + placabilis, placable, from placo, placare, to soothe, calm, appease.
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