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IRREMIS'SIBLE, adj. [in and remitto, Lat. irremijjible, 
Fr.] Not to be pardoned. 
IRREMIS SIBLENE 5 S,/ The quality of being not to 
be pardoned.—Thence arifes the aggravation and irre- 
mifiblentfs of the fin. Hammond.' 
IRREMIS'SIBLY, adv. In a manner not to be par¬ 
doned; 
IRREMOVABLE, adj. Not to be moved ; not to be 
changed-: « 
He is irremovable, 
Refolv’d for flight. Skakefpeare. 
IRREMU'NERABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
and munero, to reward.] Incapable of being rewarded. 
Bailey. 
IRRENOW'NED, adj Void of honour. We now fay, 
UiNRENOWNED : 
For all he did was to deceive good knights. 
And draw them from purfuit of praife and fame 
To fiuggifh doth and fenfual delights. 
And end their days in irretiowned fhame. Fairy Queen. 
IRREP'ARABLE, adj. Not to be recovered; not to 
be repaired.—The ftory of Deucalion and Pyrrha teaches, 
that piety and innocence cannot mifs of the divine pro¬ 
tection, and that the only lofs irreparable is that of our 
probity. Garth. 
IRREP'ARABLENESS, f. [from irreparable .] The 
Rate of being irreparable. 
IRREP'ARABLY, adv. Without recovery; without 
amends.—The cutting off that time, induftry, and gifts, 
whereby fhe would be nourilhed, were irreparably injurious 
to her. Decay of Piety. 
IRREPLEVIABLE, or Irreplevisable, adj. That 
neither may nor ought to be replevied, or delivered on 
fureties. 13 Ed. I.Jl. 1. c. 2. It is againft the nature of a 
diltrefs for rent, to be irreplevifable. 1 Inf. 145. 
IRREPOS'CIBLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and 
repofeo, to aik again.] Incapable of being required again. 
Cole. Not afed. 
IRREPREHEN'SIBLE, adj. Exempt from blame. 
IRREPREHEN'SIBLENESS,/ The ftate of being ir- 
reprehenfible. 
IRREPREHEN'SIBLY, adv. Without blame. 
IRREPRESEN'TABLE, adj. Not to be figured by 
any reprefentation.—God’s irreprefentable nature doth hold 
againft making images of God. Stilling feet. 
IRREPRO'ACHABLE, adj. Free from blame; free 
from reproach.—Their prayer may be, that they raife up 
and breed as irreproachable a young family as their parents 
have done. Pope. 
IRREPRO'ACHABLENESS, f. The ftate of being 
irreproachable. 
IRKEPRO'ACHABLY, adv. Without blame; with¬ 
out reproach. 
IRREPROVEABLE, adj. Not to be blamed; irre¬ 
proachable. 
IRREPROVEABLENESS,/. The ftate of being irre- 
proveable. 
IRREPROVEABLY, adv. Beyond reproach.—To live 
chaftely, irrepreveably, and in word and deed to fliow them- 
felves worthy of fuch a dignity. IVeever. 
IRRESIS'TABLE, and its derivatives. See Irre¬ 
sistible. 
IRRESISTIBIL'ITY, f. Power or force above oppo- 
fition.—The doctrine of" irreffibility of grace, if it be ac¬ 
knowledged, there is nothing to be aftixt to gratitude. 
Hammond. 
IRRESIS'TJBLE, adj. Superior to oppofition..—Fear 
doth grow from an apprehenfion of the Deity, indued 
with irreffible power to hurt; and is of all affections, 
anger excepted, the unapteft to admit conference with 
reafon. Hooker. 
IRRESIS'TIBLY, adv. In a manner not to be oppofed. 
-—God irreffibly fways all manner of events on earth. 
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Dryden .— Fond of pleafing and endearing ourfclves to 
thofe we eiteern, we are irreffibly led into the fame incli¬ 
nations and averfions with them. Rogers. 
IRRESIST'LESS, adj. [A barbarous ungrammatical 
conjunction of two negatives.] Irreliltible ; reliftlefs : 
Thofe radiant eyes, whofe irrefflejs flame 
Strikes Envy dumb, and keeps Sedition tame. 
They can to gazing multitudes give law. 
Convert the factious, and the rebel awe. Granville. 
IRRES'OLUBLE, adj. [in and refolubilis, Lat.] Not to 
be broken; not to be diffolved.—In factitious fal ammo¬ 
niac the common and urinous falts are fo well mingled, 
that both in the open fire and in fubliming-veffels they 
rife together as one fait, which feems in fuch veffels irre- 
foluble by fire alone. Boyle. 
IRRES'OLUBLENESS, f. Refiftance to reparation of 
the parts. — Quercetanus lias this confeflion of the irre- 
folublenefs of diamonds. Boyle. 
IRRESOL'VEDLY, adv. Without fettled determina¬ 
tion.—Divers of my friends have thought it ftrange to 
hear me fpeak fo irrefolvedly concerning thofe things, 
which fome take to be the elements, and others the prin¬ 
ciples, of all mixed bodies. Boyle. 
IRRES'OLUTE, adj. Not conftant in purpofe; not de¬ 
termined.—To make reflections upon what is paft, is the 
part of ingenious but irrefolute men. Temple. 
So Myrrha’s mind, impell’d on either fide. 
Takes ev’ry bent, but cannot long abide; 
Irrefolute on which fhe fiiould rely. 
At lalt, unfix’d in all, is only fix’d to die. Dryden. 
IRRES'OLUTELY, adv. Without firmnefs of mind ; 
without determined purpofe. 
IRRES'OLUTENESS, f. The ftate of being undeter¬ 
mined. 
IRRESOLU'TION, f. Want of firmnefs of mind.— 
I.rrefolution on the fchemes of life, which offer themfelves 
to our choice, and incdnftancy in purfuing them, are the 
greateft caufes of all our unhappinefs. Addijon. 
IRRESPECTIVE, adj. Having no regard to any cir- 
cumftances.—According to this doCtrine, it muft be re- 
folved wholly into the abfolute irrefpeBive will of God. 
Rogers. 
IRRESPECTIVELY, adv. Without regard to circum- 
ftances.—He is convinced, that all the promiles belong to 
him abfolutely and irrejpedively. Hammond. 
IRRETRIEVABLE, adj. [in and retrieve.] Not to be 
repaired ; irrecoverable ;. irreparable.—The effects of vice 
in the prefent world are often extreme mifery, irretrievable 
ruin, and even death. Butler's Analogy. 
IRRETRIEVABLENESS, f. The ftate of being irre¬ 
trievable. 
IRRETRIEVABLY, aifo. Irreparably; irrecoverably. 
—It would not defray the charge of the extraction, and 
therefore muft have been all irretrievably loft, and ufelefs 
to mankind, was it not by this means collected. Woodward. 
IRRETUR'NABLE, adj. Not to return : 
Forth irreturnable flies the fpoken word, 
Be it in feoff, in earnelt, or in bord. Skakefpeare . 
IRREV'ERENCE, f. Want of reverence; want of ve¬ 
neration ; want of refpeCt.—Having feen our fcandalous 
irreverence towards God’s worfhip in general, ’tis eafy to 
make application to the feveral parts of it. Decay of Piety. 
—State of being difregarded.—The concurrence of the 
lioufe of peers in that fury can be imputed to no one 
thing more than to the irreverence and fcorn the judges 
were juftly in, who had been always looked upon there 
as the oracles of the law. Clarendon. 
IRREV'ERENT, adj. Not paying due homage or re¬ 
verence ; not expreffmg or conceiving due veneration or 
refpeCl. — Swearing, and the irreverent uling the name 
of God in common dilcourfe, is another abufe of the 
tongue. Ray. 
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