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incapable of being undone
- She only felt that there was something irrevocably amiss and lost in her lot, and her thoughts about the future were the more readily shapen into resolve.Book 6 — The Widow and Wife (12% in)
- The joy was not the less—perhaps it was the more complete just then—because of the irrevocable parting; for there was no reproach, no contemptuous wonder to imagine in any eye or from any lips.Book 6 — The Widow and Wife (98% in)
- He had begun to have an alarmed foresight of her irrevocable loss of love for him, and the consequent dreariness of their life.Book 7 — Two Temptations (30% in)
- As he sat there and beheld the enemy of his peace going irrevocably into silence, he felt more at rest than he had done for many months.Book 7 — Two Temptations (78% in)
- Everything that bad happened to him there seemed a mere preparation for this hateful fatality, which had come as a blight on his honorable ambition, and must make even people who had only vulgar standards regard his reputation as irrevocably damaged.Book 8 — Sunset and Sunrise (4% in)
- She tried to master herself with the thought that this might be a turning-point in three lives—not in her own; no, there the irrevocable had happened, but—in those three lives which were touching hers with the solemn neighborhood of danger and distress.Book 8 — Sunset and Sunrise (65% in)
There are no more uses of "irrevocable" in Middlemarch.
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