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irrevocable

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ir·rev·o·ca·ble  (-rv-k-bl)
adj.
Impossible to retract or revoke: an irrevocable decision.

ir·revo·ca·bili·ty, ir·revo·ca·ble·ness n.
ir·revo·ca·bly adv.

irrevocable [ɪˈrɛvəkəbəl]
adj
not able to be revoked, changed, or undone; unalterable
irrevocability , irrevocableness n
irrevocably  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.irrevocable - incapable of being retracted or revoked; "firm and irrevocable is my doom"- Shakespeare
revocable, revokable - capable of being revoked or annulled; "a revocable order"

irrevocable
adjective fixed, settled, irreversible, fated, predetermined, immutable, invariable, irretrievable, predestined, unalterable, unchangeable, changeless, irremediable, unreversible He said the decision was irrevocable.
Quotations
"The moving finger writes; and having writ,"
"Moves on; nor all thy piety nor wit"
"Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,"
"Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." [Edward Fitzgerald Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam]
"One cannot step twice into the same river" [Heraclitus]
Translations
irrevocable [ɪˈrevəkəbl] ADJ [decision] → irrevocable
irrevocable [ɪˈrɛvəkəbəl] adj [decision] → irrévocable
irrevocable
adj, irrevocably
irrevocable [ɪˈrɛvəkəbl] adjirrevocabile
irrevocable [ɪˈrɛvəkəbl] adjirrevocabile


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I say brave, for I am always struck by the courage of the two who thus gaily leap into the gulf of the unknown together, thus join hands over the inevitable, and put their signatures to the irrevocable.
That's my advice: never marry till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable mistake.
In a boy's way I knew it well when I was ten, and a few years ago, when I was fifty, I took it up in the admirable new version of Ormsby, and found it so full of myself and of my own irrevocable past that I did not find it very gay.
 
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