irrevocable
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ɪˈɹɛvəkəb(ə)l/
irrevocable (not comparable)
- Unable to be retracted or reversed; final.
- circa 1599 William Shakespeare, As You Like It act 1, scene 3:
- Firm and irrevocable is my doom
- Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.
- 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, chapter 61:
- On each face, wonder and fear were painted vividly; each so still and silent, looking at the other over the black gulf of the irrevocable past.
- 2005 April 28, Samuel Abt, "Cycling: Cipo retires. Definitely. Absolutely. Yes. Probably ↗," New York Times (retrieved 27 April 2014):
- Once again, Mario Cipollini has announced his definite, absolute, unswerving and irrevocable decision to retire, and this time he means it. Probably.
- circa 1599 William Shakespeare, As You Like It act 1, scene 3:
- German: unwiderruflich
- Portuguese: irrevocável
- Russian: неизме́нный
- Spanish: irrevocable
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