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Definition of Irrepressibility
1. Noun. Irrepressible liveliness and good spirit. "I admired his buoyancy and persistent good humor"
Generic synonyms: Life, Liveliness, Spirit, Sprightliness
Derivative terms: Buoyant, Irrepressible
Lexicographical Neighbors of Irrepressibility
Literary usage of Irrepressibility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1921)
"... to two important sources of error, this exact correspondence is of doubtful
significance. Unless one is a blind devotee to the irrepressibility and ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Their emotional life is characterized by unreasonableness and irrepressibility.
On the physical side one finds deformations of the skull, defects of speech, ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"His energy, his irrepressibility, his misery, all combined to make him one of
the strongest writers of his age ; but he must yield the palm to Fielding in ..."
4. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States by Hermann Von Holst, John Joseph Lalor, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (1892)
"... the man who had proclaimed and demonstrated its irrepressibility declared:
Nothing is more simple and more certain than its settlement; ..."
5. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1921)
"... to two important sources of error, this exact correspondence is of doubtful
significance. Unless one is a blind devotee to the irrepressibility and ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Their emotional life is characterized by unreasonableness and irrepressibility.
On the physical side one finds deformations of the skull, defects of speech, ..."
7. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"His energy, his irrepressibility, his misery, all combined to make him one of
the strongest writers of his age ; but he must yield the palm to Fielding in ..."
8. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States by Hermann Von Holst, John Joseph Lalor, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (1892)
"... the man who had proclaimed and demonstrated its irrepressibility declared:
Nothing is more simple and more certain than its settlement; ..."
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