irrepealable
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of irrepealable
First recorded in 1625–35; ir- 2 + repealable ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Magna Carta, they write, is "the nearest approach to an irrepealable 'fundamental statute' that England has ever had."
From Time Magazine Archive
That was the irrepealable law which he said prohibited slavery in the Territories of Utah and New Mexico.
From American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Alexander Johnston
Does the north, guarded as it is by nature's irrepealable law, and by the self-poised and self-reliant strength of its freeborn sons, need the Federal power to guard its soil from the feet of slaves?
From The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860 by Joseph K. (Joseph Ketchum) Edgerton
A grant from the sovereign power to an individual, or to a company, is not necessarily irrepealable, nor will it in all cases be treated as a contract.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
The Senator says that by the expression "irrepealable law," Mr. Webster meant to include the compromise of 1820.
From American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Alexander Johnston
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