Both Uses of
irrevocable
in
The Scarlet Letter
- But now—since I am irrevocably doomed—wherefore should I not snatch the solace allowed to the condemned culprit before his execution?†
Chpt 18 *
- Her sex, her youth, and the whole richness of her beauty, came back from what men call the irrevocable past, and clustered themselves with her maiden hope, and a happiness before unknown, within the magic circle of this hour.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(irrevocable) incapable of being undone