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irrevocably, adv.|ɪˈrɛvəkəblɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In an irrevocable manner; so as to be irrevocable.
1. So as not to admit of being called or brought back; beyond recall or recovery.
1611Cotgr., Irrevocablement, irreuocably, vnrecallably. 1627May Lucan i. (1631) 16 Irrevocably doe the people flye. 1742Young Nt. Th. v. 402 Nor mark the much irrevocably laps'd, And mingled with the sea. 1855Thackeray Newcomes Concl., Tho' he has disappeared as irrevocably as Eurydice.
2. So as not to admit of being revoked or annulled; unalterably, irreversibly.
1608D. T. Ess. Pol. & Mor. 26 b, Ligarius..is by me already irrevocably condemn'd. 1644Bp. Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings ix. 100 They were totally and irrevocably invested with all power. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. vii. 252 The king may make a treaty with a foreign state, which shall irrevocably bind the nation. 1810House of Lancaster I. 103, I remained firmly and irrevocably fixed in my first resolution. 1841Macaulay Ess., Hastings (1887) 678 The whole party was irrevocably pledged to a prosecution. |