All 6 Uses of
irrevocable
in
The Mill on the Floss
- He hurried downstairs and left poor Maggie to that bitter sense of the irrevocable which was almost an every-day experience of her small soul.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- For having made up his mind irrevocably that he would pay Mrs. Glegg her loan of five hundred pounds, it naturally occurred to him that he had a promissory note for three hundred pounds lent to his brother-in-law Moss; and if the said brother-in-law could manage to pay in the money within a given time, it would go far to lessen the fallacious air of inconvenience which Mr. Tulliver's spirited step might have worn in the eyes of weak people who require to know precisely how a thing is…†
Chpt 1.8
- Mrs. Tulliver, you perceive, was not aware of her husband's irrevocable determination to pay in the five hundred pounds; at least such a determination exceeded her powers of belief.†
Chpt 1.9
- It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable—when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us—that tests our strength.†
Chpt 5.3
- She had reproached him for being hurried into irrevocable trespass,—she, who had been so weak herself.†
Chpt 6.13
- The irrevocable wrong that must blot her life had been committed; she had brought sorrow into the lives of others,—into the lives that were knit up with hers by trust and love.†
Chpt 6.14
Definition:
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(irrevocable) incapable of being undone