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n. - The quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist.

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  • He was to them a force that many times became a terror because of its sheer irresistibleness.
  • If he could get our point of view and let some woman take a hand at him, she might efface his irresistibleness and make a man of him.
  • The irresistibleness of things that neither threaten nor jeer nor defy, but arrange themselves in mass-formations that pass and pass and keep on passing.
  • He had not the acumen, the weight, the learning, the logical irresistibleness of Calvin; nor had he the great human sympathies, the touch of earthiness, yet not...
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