Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unreconciled or irreconcilable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being unreconciled; disagreement.
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- noun The state or quality of being
unreconciled ;disagreement .
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Examples
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The two heads came together again, but as quickly separated with every appearance of irreconcilement, and I was settling back with sensations of great disappointment, when a sound fell on the night so unexpected to all concerned that with a common impulse each eye sought the sick tent.
The Woman in the Alcove Anna Katharine Green 1890
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In each case there is more or less seeming irreconcilement between the two phases found in combination; but the opposition is rather more distinct in Hawthorne, and the grasp with which it is controlled by him is stronger than that of either Poe or
A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874
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It had its intellectual trouble too -- the impossibility of bringing together the long-cherished idea of Lufa, and the reality of Lufa revealed by herself; the two stared at each other in mortal irreconcilement.
Home Again George MacDonald 1864
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In each case there is more or less seeming irreconcilement between the two phases found in combination; but the opposition is rather more distinct in Hawthorne, and the grasp with which it is controlled by him is stronger than that of either Poe or Irving, ” again a result pronouncing him the master.
A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876
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