irreconciliableadj.
/ɪrɛkənˈsɪlɪəb(ə)l/ Now rare.
1. = irreconcilable adj. 1.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > fact or condition of being unreconciled > [adjective] > not easily reconciled
unreconcilable?1560
unreconciliable1573
inexpiable1598
irreconcilable1599
irreconciliable1601
unconciliablea1614
incompatible1623
unatonable1683
1601 in Bp. W. Barlow Defence 200 The irreconciliable iarres betwixt them and the Puritanes.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 123 The very mother and work-mistresse of irreconciliable enmitie.
a1649 W. Drummond Hist. Scotl. (1655) 176 He was an irreconciliable enemy to the whole Family of the Dowglasses.
1863 Ld. Lytton Ring of Amasis I. 73 It involves them both in the anguish of an irreconciliable destiny.
2. = irreconcilable adj. 2.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > incompatible
repugnantc1443
unsufferablea1586
insociable1591
incompatible1592
incompossible1605
unsociable1611
irreconciliable1615
incompliable1625
uncompliable1626
incompassible1630
incompatible1641
incompatible1641
inconsistent1656
incoherent1704
exclusivea1716
incombining1738
unassociable1816
inconjoinable1844
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 142 (note) Irreconciliable are the computations of Chronologers.
a1631 J. Donne Ess. Divinity (1651) 33 The Chineses vex us at this day, with irreconciliable accounts.
Derivatives
irreconciliaˈbility n.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > condition of being irreconcilable
irreconcilableness1630
unreconcilableness1645
irreconcilability1830
irreconciliability1867
1867 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) II. 561 His keen perception of the irreconciliability of his ideas with the ideas of St. Simon.
irreconˈciliableness n.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > fact or condition of being unreconciled > [noun] > fact or state of being irreconcilable
irreconcilableness1630
irreconciliablenessa1631
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1955) II. 289 Illimited and boundlesse anger, a vindicative irreconciliablenesse is imputed to God.
irreconˈciliably adv.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > fact or condition of being unreconciled > [adverb]
irreconcilably1604
irreconciliably1604
unreconcilably1606
1604 R. Parsons 3rd Pt. Treat. Conuersions in Treat. Three Conuersions Eng. II. iii. 130 Fallinge out with Luther irreconciliably.
1609 E. Hoby Let. to Mr. T. H. 5 Then did I begin irreconciliablie to detest all the Incendiaries of your Romish forge.
1661 Sir H. Vane's Politics 13 I was naturally..irreconciliably passive in the burden of an injury.
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