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Definition of Irrepressible
1. Adjective. Impossible to repress or control. "Uncontrollable laughter"
Definition of Irrepressible
1. a. Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict.
Definition of Irrepressible
1. Adjective. Not containable or controllable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Irrepressible
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Irrepressible
Literary usage of Irrepressible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"The cleverest rider may well feel fear, And cling to the neck, or hold on by the
ear, Of the Irrepressible Donkey. This mischievous "moke" is an awkward And ..."
2. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1892)
"Seward delivered at Rochester his celebrated irrepressible-conflict speech; ...
It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, ..."
3. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1894)
"Irrepressible.—The Washington Star tells the following story of Hon. SS Cox,
the " irrepressible "' Congressman from New York city: On Monday last, ..."
4. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by Marion Mills Miller, United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"... "the irrepressible conflict," which pierced to the quick through the calloused
THE UNION RAIL-SPLITTERS (Lincoln and Seward Splitting tho Union] From ..."
5. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"It was a conflict equally irrepressible that was carried on for seventy years
between France and England for the possession of North America. ..."
6. War of the Rebellion; Or, Scylla and Charybdis: Consisting of Observations by Henry Stuart Foote (1866)
"Some farther Notice of the "Irrepressible Conflict" Theory. ... THE fancied "
irrepressible conflict of antagonistic elements imbedded in our complex frame ..."
7. Orations from Homer to William McKinley by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1902)
"At a speech delivered in 1858, at Rochester, New 3 , York, he affirmed that the
slavery question offered for consideration " an irrepressible conflict," a ..."
8. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"Ezra sat down again and said nothing—exhausted by the shock of his own irrepressible
utterance, the outburst of feelings which for years he had borne in ..."
9. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"The cleverest rider may well feel fear, And cling to the neck, or hold on by the
ear, Of the Irrepressible Donkey. This mischievous "moke" is an awkward And ..."
10. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1892)
"Seward delivered at Rochester his celebrated irrepressible-conflict speech; ...
It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, ..."
11. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1894)
"Irrepressible.—The Washington Star tells the following story of Hon. SS Cox,
the " irrepressible "' Congressman from New York city: On Monday last, ..."
12. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by Marion Mills Miller, United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"... "the irrepressible conflict," which pierced to the quick through the calloused
THE UNION RAIL-SPLITTERS (Lincoln and Seward Splitting tho Union] From ..."
13. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"It was a conflict equally irrepressible that was carried on for seventy years
between France and England for the possession of North America. ..."
14. War of the Rebellion; Or, Scylla and Charybdis: Consisting of Observations by Henry Stuart Foote (1866)
"Some farther Notice of the "Irrepressible Conflict" Theory. ... THE fancied "
irrepressible conflict of antagonistic elements imbedded in our complex frame ..."
15. Orations from Homer to William McKinley by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1902)
"At a speech delivered in 1858, at Rochester, New 3 , York, he affirmed that the
slavery question offered for consideration " an irrepressible conflict," a ..."
16. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"Ezra sat down again and said nothing—exhausted by the shock of his own irrepressible
utterance, the outburst of feelings which for years he had borne in ..."
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