unreconcilable

comparative more unreconcilable · superlative most unreconcilable

1. Irreconcilable.

   But yet let me lament […] that our stars, / Unreconcilable, should divide / Our equalness to this.

   c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]

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   Kant's embrace of an unreconcilable contradiction at the foundation of human experience is not a turn to irrationalism; indeed, it is hard to imagine a more rigorous and rational thinker than Kant.

   2004, John Edward Russon, Reading Hegel's Phenomenology, page 154

   Synonyms: irreconcilable

plural unreconcilables

1. A person or thing that cannot be reconciled.

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   Rather than the beginning of a new era of calm and prosperity for Afghans, a peace deal with the Taliban will split the movement, divide the reconcilable elements of the insurgency with the unreconcilables who see compromise as capitulation, and provide a small Islamic State faction in the country with the men and support they need to grow.

   2015 July 20, “Hard Realities in Afghanistan”, in New York Times