implacable

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im‧plac‧a‧ble/ɪmˈplækəbəl/ adjective
[date : 1400-1500; Language : Latin; Origin : implacabilis, from placabilis 'easily made calm']
very determined to continue opposing someone or something:
　 ▪ implacable enemies
　 ▪ The government faces implacable opposition on the issue of nuclear waste.

—implacably adverb:
　 ▪ He remained implacably opposed to Stalin’s regime.

—implacability /ɪmˌplækəˈbɪləti, ɪmˌplækəˈbɪlɪti/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
most
▪ The Times has probably become his most implacable critic.
NOUN
foe
▪ C., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is an implacable foe of the treaty.
opposition
▪ Papinian's divergent decision seems to rest on more implacable opposition to infringing freedom of testation.
▪ While the implacable opposition of Gen Aoun is the main obstacle in his path, there are plenty of other difficulties.
▪ Operation Rescue was an organization notorious for its confrontational tactics and its implacable opposition to abortion under all circumstances.
▪ Against the implacable opposition of its lord, Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in 1554.
▪ The implacable opposition of employers had forced wages down despite the most determined efforts of the trade unions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Iraq is one of Israel's most implacable enemies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Finally, the weight of scientific evidence, wielded by an implacable defense attorney, got Miller released and another man indicted.
▪ He was frightened by the dank smell of the earth and the implacable weight of matter.
▪ Love is the one thing we have against the implacable tyranny of time.
▪ That one has long since vanished, as a result of the Falls' implacable backward erosion.
▪ What I miss, however, in Charles Dance's Coriolanus is a sense of implacable danger.
▪ While the implacable opposition of Gen Aoun is the main obstacle in his path, there are plenty of other difficulties.