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irrepressible, a. (n.)|ɪrɪˈprɛsɪb(ə)l|
[f. ir-2 + repress + -ible. Cf. F. irrépressible (adm. Acad. 1878).]
A. adj. Not repressible; that cannot be repressed, restrained, or put down; irrestrainable. (Of persons, often more or less humorous.)
1811Jane Austen Sense & Sens. III. ix. 198 His was an involuntary confidence, an irrepressible effusion. 1818in Todd. 1828Carlyle Misc., Burns (1872) II. 5 Impelled by the expansive movement of his own irrepressible soul. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 347 That irrepressible thirst after knowledge, which in minds of the highest order, supplies the absence both of external stimulus and opportunity. 1848C. Brontë J. Eyre vii. (1873) 57 Irrepressible yawns attested her weariness. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 4 Wherever a ship could penetrate..there we find these ubiquitous, these irrepressible Phoenicians. 1879Daily Tel. 17 June, The speeches were delivered amid the tumultuous and often unseemly uproar of the irrepressible undergraduates. 1894H. H. Gardener Unoff. Patriot 278 Shiloh had passed into history, and Grant was famous!.. One more milestone in the devious road was past. One more reef was taken in the irrepressible conflict.
B. n. An irrepressible person.
1890Pall Mall G. 15 July 3/2 Love is always the poet's test. Note the original way in which these irrepressibles essay it. 1895Amer. Missionary (N.Y.) Sept. 304 The..boy being one of those irrepressibles who find it difficult to sit still.
Hence irrepressiˈbility, irreˈpressibleness, the quality of being irrepressible.
1867Pall Mall G. 1 Mar. 5 His irrepressibility rises to something like heroism. 1875K. S. Macquoid My Story II. xx. 308 Any irrepressibleness or impulsiveness..had been smiled at as ignorance and rawness. |