All 3 Uses of
irrevocable
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Any other person would, perhaps, have been overcome by such an intoxicating draught of praise; but he feared to make for himself a mortal enemy of the police minister, although he saw that Dandre was irrevocably lost.†
Chpt 11-12 *irrevocably = in a manner that cannot be undone
- When their parents are sufficiently rich to pay a ransom, a messenger is sent to negotiate; the prisoner is hostage for the security of the messenger; should the ransom be refused, the prisoner is irrevocably lost.†
Chpt 33-34
- It is then understood that to-morrow you will be irrevocably promised to M. Franz d'Epinay, not only by that theatrical formality invented to heighten the effect of a comedy called the signature of the contract, but your own will?†
Chpt 73-74
Definition:
incapable of being undone