Both Uses of
irrevocable
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- The matter was settled at the time, and by the competent authorities,—equitably, it is to be presumed,—and, at all events, irrevocably.†
Chpt 13 *irrevocably = in a manner that cannot be undone
- But when those words were irrevocably spoken, his look assumed sternness, the sense of power, and immitigable resolve; and this with so natural and imperceptible a change, that it seemed as if the iron man had stood there from the first, and the meek man not at all.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
incapable of being undone