All 6 Uses of
irrevocable
in
Middlemarch
- 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.†
Chpt 6 *irrevocably = in a manner that cannot be undone
- 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.†
Chpt 6irrevocable = incapable of being undone
- He had begun to have an alarmed foresight of her irrevocable loss of love for him, and the consequent dreariness of their life.†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 7irrevocably = in a manner that cannot be undone
- 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.†
Chpt 8
- 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.†
Chpt 8irrevocable = incapable of being undone