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irresistibly, adv.|ɪrɪˈzɪstɪblɪ| Also 7–9 -ably. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In an irresistible manner; so as to be irresistible.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 410 Being so ordered and disposed irreversibly and irresistibly. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. iii. 129 That any man or Nation should so absolutely, irresistably inslave themselves. 1709Steele Tatler No. 30 ⁋4, I shall come Home this Winter irresistibly dress'd, and with quite a new Foreign Air. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) I. ii. 72 We are led irresistably to enquire, ‘What is light and what is heat?’ 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. vi. 217 We are irresistibly carried away by his enthusiasm. |