irremeable

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/ɪˈɹɛm.i.ə.bəl/

adjective

Admitting no return; from or by which one cannot return.

“an irremeable way”

OriginLatin irremeābilis →
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Meanings

adjectiveirremeable (comparative more irremeable, superlative most irremeable)

comparative more irremeable · superlative most irremeable

  1. obsoleteAdmitting no return; from or by which one cannot return.

    an irremeable way

    3 more examples

    Oh , thou hast given me such a glimpse of hell , So pushed me forward even to the brink Of that irremeable burning gulf

    1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number)

    th' irremeable flood

    1715–1720, Homer, “Book 23”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC

    But when I do come, I perhaps shall not be easily persuaded to pass again to the other side of Styx, to venture myself on the irreamable road

    1767 October 3, Samuel Johnson, letter to Mrs Thrale

Origin

  1. Latinirremeābilis
  2. Englishirremeable

Borrowed from Latin irremeābilis, from in- (“not”) + remeābilis (“returning”), from remeō. Compare French irréméable. See remeant.

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