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irrefrangible, a.|ɪrɪˈfrændʒɪb(ə)l|
[f. ir-2 + refrangible (an irreg. formation for refringible, after refraction).]
1. That cannot or must not be broken or violated; inviolable.
c1719Lett. fr. Mist's Jrnl. (1722) I. 183 Nothing..signalizes our Integrity so much as a strict and irrefrangible Adhesion to our Friend. 1853Miss Mulock Agatha's Husb. xx. II. 290 An irrefrangible law of country etiquette—of a bride's going to church for the first time, ceremoniously, in bridal dress.
2. Optics. Not refrangible; incapable of being refracted.
Mod. The Röntgen rays are irrefrangible.
Hence irreˈfrangibly adv., so as not to be broken; fixedly, inviolably.
1885H. Conway Family Affair iii, They knew..that the dragons were welded to their vases more irrefrangibly than Prometheus to his rock. |