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Example sentences for "irrevocable"

Lexicographically close words:
irreverence; irreverent; irreverently; irreversible; irreversibly; irrevocably; irrigable; irrigate; irrigated; irrigates
  1. Superstitious systems can effect nothing against my irrevocable decrees, which will that man shall ever irritate himself against the cause of his sorrows.

  2. Whatever might be the etymology of the Latin word, it conveyed the idea of a firm and irrevocable contract, which was always expressed in the mode of a question and answer.

  3. But God left him to 'walk in his own ways, and be filled with the fruit of his own devices,' by no irrevocable abandonment, however the decree of rejection from the kingship was irrevocable.

  4. The boy answered her small, shaken whisper solemnly, as if he were taking a formal and irrevocable vow, but there was no one to listen to it here, and bear witness to it as irrevocable.

  5. Judith was the only outsider who did, and she had besides the irrevocable right of youth to pronounce judgment upon those who have prepared the world for it to occupy.

  6. The presses were throwing out to the world once again their irrevocable message of fact and fate.

  7. The difficulty being happily removed, he was permitted to seal the irrevocable act of his consecration to God by the solemn vows.

  8. The dream was to them an irrevocable decree which it was never allowable to slight.

  9. His father had declared his irrevocable determination no further to injure the interests of his younger children by supplying the prodigality of the eldest.

  10. An irrevocable value has never been stamped upon any work solely recommended by impurity.

  11. His appeal to Florence was accompanied by another to the Emperor Henry; and the death of that Sovereign in 1313 was the signal for a sentence of irrevocable banishment.

  12. Does it not seem as if fate were resolved to punish all my past deeds by stamping them with its irrevocable signet at the moment I first longed to recall them?

  13. But that, too," he added sadly, "is amongst the dark things of the irrevocable past.

  14. The beneficium was to be as practically irrevocable as the oath of fidelity.

  15. The others, the irrevocable flirtations, are the mistakes.

  16. Many marriages, half the marriages one sees, are only irrevocable flirtations; but the ceremony of to-day was not even that.

  17. Your father is my old friend, I should not be doing my duty by him if I did not beg you to reflect before taking so irrevocable a step.

  18. I certainly never can give her occasion for being so, and I beg you, Herr von Massenburg, to consider this as my irrevocable resolve.

  19. She had been sorry herself to miss that half hour among the roses but she was still too young and too happy to know how few are such hours, how irrevocable such losses.

  20. Had the thing he called love been but a boy's hot passion caught in the grip of a man's awakening will, a mistake made irrevocable by a stubbornness of purpose which could not face defeat?

  21. Christianity, after having posited the dogma of the fall as the first term, followed up its thought by affirming, for all who should die in this state of pollution, an irrevocable separation from God, an eternity of punishment.

  22. He ascended the throne as his natural right; and, having done so, he willingly granted to the people, in an irrevocable form, the substantial principles of a free constitution.

  23. And yet hardly like them; not always so docile, nor so wholly prepared for the departure, the brevity, of the golden and irrevocable hour.

  24. The remaining part of the contract price is usually guaranteed by bankers' irrevocable letters of credit or deposits made with New York banks, to be drawn against as the goods are delivered, f.

  25. Far the horizon of our best desires Stretches into the sunset of our lives: The wavering taper of the achieved expires, And only the irrevocable will survives.

  26. In a few moments, the irrevocable monosyllable will be uttered.

  27. No doubt they would have been glad to see their ancient faith predominant in their ancient land; but they bowed, as I bow, to an adverse and apparently irrevocable decree.

  28. That is, sentence is put forth by Coelestine; it is suspended by the Convocation of a General Council; it is heard and examined; it is corroborated by a new and irrevocable judgment, united with the authority of the whole Church.

  29. If what he believed or taught was immediately the supreme and irrevocable law, why did he not himself pronounce sentence?

  30. To put the matter briefly, if a spirit from outside can enter the organism, the spirit from inside can go out, can change its centre of perception and action, in a way less complete and irrevocable than the change of death.

  31. Death; as irrevocable self-projection of the spirit.

  32. But as her destiny, written in her cradle, was an irrevocable sentence, she was finally made to take the veil, which suited her admirably, and which she wears with an infinite despair.

  33. Oh, curse of kings, Infusing a dread life into their words, And linking to the sudden, transient thought The unchanging, irrevocable deed.

  34. Its verdicts were irrevocable and independent of all other authority.

  35. It cannot be that when the eyes reopen they shall see the forms of dark apparitors, or that the ears shall hear Æacus and Rhadamanthys speaking in dim halls their cold, irrevocable dooms.

  36. So far as he is concerned it is an irrevocable fate.

  37. Can political differences, opposite pursuits, or the mere lapse of time, have sufficed to create an irrevocable gulf between us?

  38. He would quit Paris, he would travel, he would not see Evelyn again till the irrevocable barrier was passed, and she was the wife of Maltravers!


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irrevocable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.