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UK
/ɪɹɪvˈɒkəbəl/
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[ US /ˌɪˈɹɛvəkəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˈɹɛvəkəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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incapable of being retracted or revoked
firm and irrevocable is my doom
How To Use irrevocable In A Sentence
- Each new exhibition of the irrevocableness of the break between Jesus and the leaders was a severe test of their loyalty. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth
- It is the usual practice for a bank to confirm only an Irrevocable L / C.
- She teaches how to continue with discretion what is thoughtlessly undertaken; she inclines the mind to cleave steadfastly to what was imposed upon it by authority; and imparts to a choice which, though rash at the time, is now irrevocable, all the sanctity, all the advisedness, and, let us say it boldly, all the cheerfulness of a lawful calling. Chapter X
- But he ‘stepped back from the brink of radical or irrevocable acts against members of his ruling circle’.
- Then such a wave of despair and anguish overwhelmed him, the irrevocableness and implacability of fate so smote him, that he lifted up his head and howled aloud. Flush: a biography
- Debate raged around the dinner tables of the nation, causing irrevocable family feuds and superficial cutlery wounds.
- It crosses the night sky like the moon; or else, like an actor, it crosses the stage, moving in an irrevocable pattern from origin to end.
- Citizenship should be available after five years and be irrevocable.
- Suddenly, we are on the verge of something irrevocable. Times, Sunday Times
- Delicate ecosystems worldwide are threatened with irrevocable decline beneath the massed boots of latter-day pilgrims.