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irrepealable

[ir-i-pee-luh-buh l]
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adjective
  1. incapable of being repealed or revoked.
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Origin of irrepealable

First recorded in 1625–35; ir-2 + repealable
Related formsir·re·peal·a·bil·i·ty, ir·re·peal·a·ble·ness, nounir·re·peal·a·bly, adverb
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Examples from the Web for irrepealable

Historical Examples

  • No laws of nature are so irrepealable as that law which binds guilt and misery.

    Slavery

    William E. Channing

  • They were two castes, separate and standing apart as by the irrepealable law of God.

    The Rise of the Mediaeval Church

    Alexander Clarence Flick

  • This irrepealable law of the human heart was a mighty rock of confidence in Lincoln's social and political faith.

  • It possessed not the concentrated power of binding and irrepealable unity to protect the common flag of a common Union.

  • That was the irrepealable condition under which aid from time to time was granted.

    Mrs. Thompson

    William Babington Maxwell

British Dictionary definitions for irrepealable

irrepealable

adjective
  1. not able to be repealed
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Derived Formsirrepealability or irrepealableness, nounirrepealably, adverb
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