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Irremovable

Irremovable \Ir`re*mov"a*ble\, a. Not removable; immovable; inflexible.
--Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
irremovable

1590s, from ir- "not" + removable. Related: Irremovably; irremovability.

Wiktionary
irremovable

a. Not removable; immovable; inflexible.

WordNet
irremovable

adj. impossible to remove or take away or dismiss; "irremovable boulders"; "irremovable obstacles" [ant: removable]

Usage examples of "irremovable".

He had, however, begun to hope it was not irremovable, and with the determination of renewing his visit in the morning, he took his leave, to allow Denbigh to attend to his other guest, Lord Henry Stapleton.

Face, neck and hands became covered with mixture of lampblack and turpentine, forming a coating as thick as heavy brown paper, and absolutely irremovable by water alone.

To keep the power in their own hands, the money-changers had long before bought up half the country with soldier-pensions and turned a measure which had originally been a righteous one into a machine for the manufacture of bondslaves -- a machine which was at the same time an irremovable instrument of tyranny -- for every pensioner had a vote, and every man and woman who had ever been acquainted with a soldier was a pensioner.

They are irremovable, but by their own body, for any depravities of conduct, and even by their own body for the imbecilities of dotage.