irrevocable

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Perhaps,--ah, who can tell that it is not so?--for those who truly love, with all their errors, with all their faults, there is no "irrevocable"--there is "another field As I turned from the garden, the tense note of the surf vibrated through the night.

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  1. adjective Impossible to retract or revoke: an irrevocable decision.

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  • That death sentence upon Xollar is irrevocable, and no man has yet escaped it no matter where upon the planet he may be when the appointed time for his execution comes. —  Astounding Stories, February 1932
  • But you are realizing that you have done something irrevocable, are you not? —  Mary Balogh - Tempting Harriet.htm
  • He'll compel us to do the irrevocable, as soon as possible, just because it will make a final commitment. —  The Burning Bridge
  • So legates were sent and upheld in his name the supremacy of the Church Sidenote: Reasons for Irrevocable Vow The vow to crusade was irrevocable, and sovereigns took it to obtain pardon, to secure glory, and propitiate favor. —  Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm
  • Ye cannot enter now Of course the past is irreparable and irrevocable, and it may seem idle to vex ourselves in thinking about doors now closed, that no tears, no prayers, no loud knockings, can ever open again. —  Making the Most of Life
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  1. = French irrévocable = Spanish irrevocable = Portuguese irrevocavel = Italian irrevocabile, inrevocabile, from Latin irrevocabilis, inrevocabilis, that cannot be called back, from in- privative + revocabilis, that can be called back: see revocable.
 

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