irrevocability love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being irrevocable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or quality of being irrevocable; irrevocableness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state or condition of being irrevocable.
  • noun Something irrevocable.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

irrevocable +‎ -ity

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Examples

  • "irrevocability" of the license that each visitor gets does not mean that the author must forevermore offer the license to all visitors.

    Black Star Rising 2009

  • As for the signature thing, nothing I have heard suggests the pardon had reached the "sealed" stage, which is where I understood irrevocability sets in.

    Discourse.net: Pardon Update (Updated) 2008

  • Johnson was determined instead to proceed by stealth, partly because he hadnt yet persuaded himself of the irrevocability of the choices he was making, and partly because he wanted to maintain as long as possible the enormous spring and summer 1965 momentum behind his domestic Great Society program.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • He proceeds to bring up the same arguments always spouted around the irrevocability of CC licences.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • But there are certain “unrefusable facts” about life, which cannot be demoted to the status of fictions without terrible costs:The reality of the physical world, the inevitability of death, the social nature of man, the irrevocability of historical events and changes—these are facts that we cannot possibly not know, though we can argue infinitely about their significance and how we ought to understand them.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Johnson was determined instead to proceed by stealth, partly because he hadnt yet persuaded himself of the irrevocability of the choices he was making, and partly because he wanted to maintain as long as possible the enormous spring and summer 1965 momentum behind his domestic Great Society program.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • Johnson was determined instead to proceed by stealth, partly because he hadnt yet persuaded himself of the irrevocability of the choices he was making, and partly because he wanted to maintain as long as possible the enormous spring and summer 1965 momentum behind his domestic Great Society program.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • He proceeds to bring up the same arguments always spouted around the irrevocability of CC licences.

    ccau staff talk a lot: part 1 2007

  • The question is, what positive steps can individuals and communities take before climate change becomes distressingly tangible and before we're attuned to its irrevocability?

    Sanjay Khanna: Tweet From SXSWi '09: "Pessimists Die Quickly" (Gulp) 2009

  • Johnson was determined instead to proceed by stealth, partly because he hadnt yet persuaded himself of the irrevocability of the choices he was making, and partly because he wanted to maintain as long as possible the enormous spring and summer 1965 momentum behind his domestic Great Society program.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

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