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irreconciliable, a. Now rare.|ɪrɛkənˈsɪlɪəb(ə)l|
[a. F. irréconciliable (16th c. in Littré), ad. med.L. type *irreconciliābilis, f. ir- (ir-2) + reconciliāre to reconcile.]
1. = irreconcilable 1.
1601in Bp. W. Barlow Defence 200 The irreconciliable iarres betwixt them and the Puritanes. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 123 The very mother and work-mistresse of irreconciliable enmitie. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Scot. (1655) 176 He was an irreconciliable enemy to the whole Family of the Dowglasses. 1863Ld. Lytton Ring Amasis I. 73 It involves them both in the anguish of an irreconciliable destiny.
2. = irreconcilable 2.
a1615Donne Ess. (1651) 33 The Chineses vex us at this day with irreconciliable accounts. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 142 note, Irreconciliable are the computations of Chronologers.
Hence irreconciliaˈbility, -ˈciliableness; irreconˈciliably adv.
1604Parsons 3rd Pt. Three Convers. Eng. 130 Fallinge out with Luther irreconciliably. 1609E. Hoby Let. to Mr. T. H. 5 Then did I begin irreconciliablie to detest all the Incendiaries of your Romish forge. a1631Donne Serm. lxxii. 727 Illimited and boundlesse anger, a vindicative irreconciliablenesse is imputed to God. 1661Sir H. Vane's Politics 13, I was naturally..irreconciliably passive in the burden of an injury. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) II. 561 His keen perception of the irreconciliability of his ideas with the ideas of St. Simon. |