Irrevocable
[ɪ'revəkəb(ə)l] or [ɪ'rɛvəkəbl]
Definition
(adj.) incapable of being retracted or revoked; 'firm and irrevocable is my doom'- Shakespeare .
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Definition
(a.) Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unchangeable, IRREVERSIBLE.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See REVERSIBLE]
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Definition
adj. that cannot be recalled.—n. Irrev′ocableness.—adv. Irrev′ocably.
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Examples
- Only in the summer of 1776 did Congress take the irrevocable step of declaring for separation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- How irrevocable would have been his knowledge of it, if he had remained with me but another hour! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She completely dispelled the persuasion that Asia was in some irrevocable way hopelessly behind Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This determination is final and irrevocable. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The fathers themselves would have been the first to declare that their prerogatives were not irrevocable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The silence that followed lay on them with the weight of things final and irrevocable. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- You do your hair differently, he said, his heart beating as if he had uttered something irrevocable. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- And when it is irrevocable, it is one way, like the path of a star. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The changes of a fevered room are slow and fluctuating; but the changes of the fevered world are rapid and irrevocable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- That is my deliberate and irrevocable determination. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- As a matter of fact, if you enter into a pure unison, it is irrevocable, and it is never pure till it is irrevocable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She, too, gazed back with pleading eyes before she would believe that it was irrevocable. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I speak,' said Miss Mills, 'from experience of the past--the remote, irrevocable past. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He had begun to have an alarmed foresight of her irrevocable loss of love for him, and the consequent dreariness of their life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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