Adjective : an irrevocable decree. From Dictionary.com.
"irrevocability" of the license that each visitor gets does not mean that the author must forevermore offer the license to all visitors. From Wordnik.com. [Black Star Rising] Reference
The sure irrevocability of what he was saying blanched his cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
To Nan they were rather terrifying with their suggestion of irrevocability. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
He proceeds to bring up the same arguments always spouted around the irrevocability of CC licences. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
She didn't even try to fight the compulsion that swept her toward him with the irrevocability of the tide. From Wordnik.com. [A Kiss Remembered]
The question leaped from her, and Garth's answer came with an irrevocability of refusal there was no combating. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Where on the other hand we are certain of the irrevocability and unreservedness of our feeling, such peace at any price is not necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations] Reference
Because of the priority of the present over the future and the irrevocability of entropic degradation, the opposite is true for the terrestrial shares. From Wordnik.com. [Energy and economic myths (historical)] Reference
As for the signature thing, nothing I have heard suggests the pardon had reached the "sealed" stage, which is where I understood irrevocability sets in. From Wordnik.com. [Discourse.net: Pardon Update (Updated)] Reference
Historical context apart, Klemperer's journals can be read for their own sake as a gnawing meditation on the disappointments of life and the irrevocability of choices. From Wordnik.com. [Survivor] Reference
The question is, what positive steps can individuals and communities take before climate change becomes distressingly tangible and before we're attuned to its irrevocability?. From Wordnik.com. [Sanjay Khanna: Tweet From SXSWi '09: "Pessimists Die Quickly" (Gulp)] Reference
The truth is the only thing that makes us free and safe is the free will that allows us to choose our own destiny, in spite of the inherent dangers, and the irrevocability of all our rights to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Civil Liberties: What's Your Asking Price?] Reference
A sense of the irrevocability of your undertaking. From Wordnik.com. [With the Prime Minister in Great Britain] Reference
On the other question, the irrevocability of marriage, M. From Wordnik.com. [Auguste Comte and Positivism] Reference
The irrevocability of it was anguish to her tortured imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Swindler and Other Stories] Reference
Then the focus had been on irrevocability and the need to assert oneself and be counted. From Wordnik.com. [The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage] Reference
Again into the consideration intruded the absolute finality, the irrevocability of her choice. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Trail Divides] Reference
Already she was beginning to feel the pain of loss and the weighty irrevocability of everything. From Wordnik.com. [The Heather-Moon] Reference
Science had revealed the irrevocability of the laws of nature -- was man alone to be exempt from them?. From Wordnik.com. [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference
Mr. Pickwick gave a heavy blow on the table before him, in confirmation of the irrevocability of his intention. From Wordnik.com. [The Pickwick Papers] Reference
But when she had the permit and her cabin was booked, the irrevocability of her step came to her with full force. From Wordnik.com. [Saint's Progress] Reference
He resolved to accept it, and by way of irrevocability at once burnt his ships behind him -- in devouring part of his dinner. From Wordnik.com. [Openings in the Old Trail] Reference
The girl felt physically sick as she understood the irrevocability of what she had just said, and the way in which her words were construed. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Latchkey] Reference
Here we have secrecy in the making of laws, and irrevocability of the law when made; whereas, in all other cases, we have had publicity and revocability. From Wordnik.com. [Letters on International Copyright; Second Edition] Reference
Having recently heard some of the debate over the struggle to save St. Paul's, I wanted to remind Garden City residents of the irrevocability of their decisions. From Wordnik.com. [Garden City News] Reference
He recognised all the conquests of the Revolution: the civil Code, equality before the law, liberty of worship, irrevocability of the sale of national property, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Revolution] Reference
I think it was the look of the helmet which gave her that sinking feeling of irrevocability which seems to sever you, as with a sword, from all the dear little safe things that have made up your life in the past. From Wordnik.com. [Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley] Reference
The boy instantly darted off with the shilling, lest Mr. Datchery should repent, but stopped at a safe distance, on the happy chance of his being uneasy in his mind about it, to goad him with a demon dance expressive of its irrevocability. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
Maitland twisted his eyebrows in deprecation of Bannerman's attitude; signified the irrevocability of his decision by bringing his fist down upon the table -- but not heavily enough to disturb the other diners; and, laughing, changed the subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Brass Bowl] Reference
It’s possible there’s a good legal argument for the irrevocability, but I don’t see one made here. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Israel’s legal rights to Judea and Samaria] Reference
“There is no good in giving our opposition to France the stamp of irrevocability; it would be no doubt a great misfortune if we were to unite ourselves with France, but why proclaim this to all the world?. From Wordnik.com. [Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire]
"The irrevocability of sales of national property, from whatever source originating. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II] Reference
Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy drew a parallel between the death penalty and life without parole, noting that while "it is true that a death sentence is 'unique in its severity and irrevocability,' (. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
I-- I mean that it reduces the -- er -- paralysing sense of irrevocability. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891] Reference
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