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Irrevocably

Irrevocable \Ir*rev"o*ca*ble\, a. [L. irrevocabilis: cf. F. irr['e]vocable. See In- not, and Revoke, and cf. Irrevocable.] Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate.

Firm and irrevocable is my doom.
--Shak. -- Ir*rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*rev"o*ca*bly, adv.

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irrevocably

adv. In an irrevocable manner; beyond recall; in a manner precluding repeal.

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irrevocably

adv. in an irrevocable manner

Usage examples of "irrevocably".

But, she realized as she looked around at the table, laden with expensive creamware and incredibly ornate silver, her life had totally, irrevocably changed.

Mocsin and the horrible death of his only friend, Fishmouth Charlie, finally and irrevocably tipped the balance of his mind into madness.

I knew how easy it would be for me to convince my three friends that my marriage had been irrevocably written in the great book of fate.

She spotted Joan Grenville standing naked in the room and let out a low moan, a curious mixture of disappointment and despair, as though somehow the party were irrevocably ruined by this selfish, bestial conduct under her very roof.

The architecture is Modern Neoclassic, which the best architects decry with some justice, but which is the closest approach in stainless steel, glass and planed limestone to that Grecian ideal which has been irrevocably planted in the human mind as the proper form of a public building.

But in Reeds experience, that momentwhen you thought things were finished, ended, irrevocably completewas exactly when they started up again, in ways you couldnt have imagined.

I die before an heir of mine comes of age, the Duke of Claibourne and the Earl of Marley are irrevocably appointed as regents, regardless of whoever else you ramrod through the council.

Javan found vaguely disturbing, though Hubert had assured him that tonsuring was symbolic only, and did not bind him irrevocably to the religious state.

There were all these wheels in motion when Barbs was still everywhere around them, between them, irrevocably between them, but still unacknowledged, still not discussed.

And the central compulsion of the Code, like the DNA of human genetics, blueprinted irrevocably the direction and the form of growth.

And once the crossroads were taken, then no British troops could reach the Prussians and thus the armies would be irrevocably split and the Emperor would have won his campaign.

These seemingly 'educational' little blocks of connectable fun and happiness have irrevocably brainwashed entire generations of youth from the information-dense industrialized nations into developing mindsets that view the world as unitized, sterile, inorganic, and interchangeably modular-populated by bland limbless creatures with cultishly sweet smiles.

Bradley and particularly Alicia Dammers (to these three he gave credit for possessing the best minds in the Circle) before irrevocably committing himself.

The fact has been highly publicized by the sensation mongers of Earth and Ganymede and a great deal of sentiment has been driveled about the unfortunate intelligences who are irrevocably surface-bound, and must forever stare into the Universe without, watching, watching, wondering, and never attaining.

His coming marriage to Alicia was irrevocably set, and only Maggie, prompted by Nigel, who could not really know, was ready to pin some faint hope on my coming here.