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
And Congress, like every other legislature, often passes acts which, being in the nature of grants or contracts, are irrepealable ever afterwards.
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel
It possessed not the concentrated power of binding and irrepealable unity to protect the common flag of a common Union.
From The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met by Steight, A. D.
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 Edgerton, Joseph K. (Joseph Ketchum)
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 Cloud, D. C.
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