inevitableness

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The electrocution in the prolog gives the subsequent action some of the grim inevitableness of last season's The Last Mile.

From Time Magazine Archive

As with the physical, so with the ethical; all religions teach the inevitableness of punishment and reward, with which deeds are necessarily and indissolubly connected.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

If he be a man who has set himself to some piece of social reconstruction I will watch with what ardour, and ingenuity, and inevitableness he is moving towards his goal.

From The Whole Armour of God by Jowett, John Henry

The last man was aboard; the gangway was hauled up; the screw pounded the water; the ship began to glide away from the dock with slow, sickening inevitableness.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton

It is no tearer, no eradicator, no falterer, who in this frightfully beautiful bustle of passion and inevitableness has given a picture of his own dissoluteness.

From The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood by Wedekind, Frank