单词 | irrevocably |
释义 | irrevocablyadv. 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adverb] > irretrievably unrecoverablyc1475 unreprievably1594 irrevocably1611 irreclaimably1662 irretrievably1695 irredeemably1790 returnlessly1840 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Irrevocablement, irreuocably, vnrecallably. 1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (1631) i. 16 Irrevocably doe the people flye. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 27 Nor mark the Much irrevocably laps'd, And mingled with the Sea. 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xlii. 373 Though he has disappeared as irrevocably as Eurydice. 2. So as not to admit of being revoked or annulled; unalterably, irreversibly. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [adverb] ever ylikeOE stillc1297 unchangeablya1340 in likea1425 unchangingly1435 immutably1601 irrevocably1608 negatively1622 inalterably1631 irreversibly1635 unalterably1643 invariably1646 intransibly1654 influxibly1677 uniformly1682 eternally1694 unvariably1766 unvaryingly1814 changelessly1825 homœostatically1959 terminally1974 the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [adverb] unrevocably1472 beyond (also past, without) recall1597 irrevocably1608 irrepealably1653 1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 26v Ligarius..is by me already irrevocably condemn'd. 1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas ix. 100 They were totally and irrevocably invested with all power. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. vii. 252 The king may make a treaty with a foreign state, which shall irrevocably bind the nation. 1810 House of Lancaster I. 103 I remained firmly and irrevocably fixed in my first resolution. 1841 T. B. Macaulay Warren Hastings in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 234 The whole party was irrevocably pledged to a prosecution. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1608 |
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