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irremovable, a. (n.)|ɪrɪˈmuːvəb(ə)l|
Also 6 -mooueable, 6–9 -moveable.
[ir-2.]
1. Not removable; incapable of being removed or displaced; not subject to removal.
1598J. Dickenson Greene in Conc. (1878) 149 Left on her bruised limmes for lasting monument the irremooueable characters of his barbarous crueltie. 1598Yong Diana 125, I onely wish I may haue harbour and entertainment there, where my irremooueable and infinite loue is so firmely placed. 1665Hooke Microgr. 25 Finding in it several difficulties almost irremovable. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 359 Let us consider from whence they [perplexities] generally arise, and perhaps we shall find them not irremoveable. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 172 Faith failing through irremovable ignorance. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. I. 303 An ominous irremovable guest.
b. Incapable of being displaced from office or position; permanent.
1648Milton Tenure Kings Wks. (1847) 243/1 The right of birth or succession can be no privilege in nature, to let a tyrant sit irremovable over a nation freeborn. 1753Ld. Cobham in H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) I. v. 135 The Parliament could not be dissolved, but by an irremovable Council. 1832tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. v. 119 A body of judges, numerous, independent, and irremovable. 1872E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 253 As long as he performed the obligations required of him, the Emphyteuta was irremoveable.
†2. Incapable of being moved; immovable, inflexible. lit. and fig. Obs.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 10/1 With the tonge tiede, and with irremoveable eyes. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 323 These are the irremovable stones and surest sement. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 518 Hee's irremoueable, Resolu'd for flight. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Chimney-Sweepers, There he stood, as he stands in the picture, irremovable.
B. n. One who cannot be removed; one whose position is permanent.
1848Lewis Lett. (1870) 183 A Bill making vagrants and irremovables a union charge. 1895Chicago Advance 1 Aug. 151/1 The English Lords have been called the incapable irremovables.
Hence irremovaˈbility, irreˈmovableness, the quality of being irremovable.
1610Donne Pseudo-martyr x. 276 These Canons..cannot preuaile so much vpon our consciences, as to imprint and worke such a[n]..irremoueablenesse from them. 1828Webster, Irremovability. 1858Times 29 Nov. 4/1 He defended..the principle of judicial irremovability. 1893Duke of Argyll Unseen Found. Society ix. 267 Irremovability from the soil of some particular area. |