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Definition of Irrecoverably
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Irrecoverably
Literary usage of Irrecoverably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(46) In this morass the Roman army, after an ineffectual struggle, was irrecoverably
lost : nor could the body of the emperor ever be found. ..."
2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... and all the estates within twenty miles of it will be vastly increased in
their value, and New York will finally and irrecoverably lose one-half of its ..."
3. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"Here the Eny threw overboard a large Chest of MSS. now lamentably & irrecoverably
lost ! A Treasure of great Value 1 29. Visited Rev. ..."
4. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted, to by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"... frequently, irrecoverably lost and give rise to a claim of AVERAGE; whilst
Jetsam are goods found, in and to which legal rights arise. ..."
5. Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous by Archibald Alison (1850)
"and therefore esteemed, the national will; and many opportunities of stemming
the torrent, which, as Dumont shows, afterwards arose, were irrecoverably ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(46) In this morass the Roman army, after an ineffectual struggle, was irrecoverably
lost : nor could the body of the emperor ever be found. ..."
7. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... and all the estates within twenty miles of it will be vastly increased in
their value, and New York will finally and irrecoverably lose one-half of its ..."
8. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"Here the Eny threw overboard a large Chest of MSS. now lamentably & irrecoverably
lost ! A Treasure of great Value 1 29. Visited Rev. ..."
9. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted, to by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"... frequently, irrecoverably lost and give rise to a claim of AVERAGE; whilst
Jetsam are goods found, in and to which legal rights arise. ..."
10. Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous by Archibald Alison (1850)
"and therefore esteemed, the national will; and many opportunities of stemming
the torrent, which, as Dumont shows, afterwards arose, were irrecoverably ..."
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