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Definition of Irrevocable
1. Adjective. Incapable of being retracted or revoked. "Firm and irrevocable is my doom"
Definition of Irrevocable
1. a. Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate.
Definition of Irrevocable
1. Adjective. Unable to be retracted or reversed. Final. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Irrevocable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Irrevocable
Literary usage of Irrevocable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Agency: Including Not Only a Discussion of the by Floyd Russell Mechem (1914)
"Rule applies though authority called "exclusive" or "irrevocable."—The mere fact
that an authority, which from its nature would otherwise be revocable at ..."
2. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1919)
"Offers made irrevocable by statute. Under some statutes certain types of offer
are made irrevocable.1 A statute which makes bids upon public works ..."
3. A Digest of the Law of Agency by William Bowstead (1898)
"But the authority of an agent ig not irrevocable merely because he has an interest
in the exercise of it, or has a special property in, or lien for advances ..."
4. The Book of Fallacies: From Unfinished Papers of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, Peregrine Bingham (1824)
"In the case of the fallacy derived from the alleged irrevocable nature of certain
laws, or, to speak briefly, the fallacy of irrevocable laws, ..."
5. Essays on the Principles of Morality: And on the Private and Political by Jonathan Dymond (1834)
"In a certain sense indeed all personal punishments are irrevocable. ... But if
irrevocable punishments cannot be dispensed with, they should not be made ..."
6. The Law of Patents for Useful Inventions by William Callyhan Robinson (1890)
"Authority of Attorney Revocable or irrevocable : How Revoked. A power of attorney
may bc either irrevocable or revocable. Where it constitutes part of a ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Easements by John Leybourn Goddard (1877)
"So, a deed which granted a liberty, licence, power, and authority to f • -ii- f it.
irrevocable (s) Though this is so, it has been wires on revocation of ..."
8. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"The interest coupled with a power, to make jt irrevocable, must be an interest in
... Clearly such an agency is not irrevocable in law because of its being ..."
9. A Treatise on the Law of Agency: Including Not Only a Discussion of the by Floyd Russell Mechem (1914)
"Rule applies though authority called "exclusive" or "irrevocable."—The mere fact
that an authority, which from its nature would otherwise be revocable at ..."
10. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1919)
"Offers made irrevocable by statute. Under some statutes certain types of offer
are made irrevocable.1 A statute which makes bids upon public works ..."
11. A Digest of the Law of Agency by William Bowstead (1898)
"But the authority of an agent ig not irrevocable merely because he has an interest
in the exercise of it, or has a special property in, or lien for advances ..."
12. The Book of Fallacies: From Unfinished Papers of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, Peregrine Bingham (1824)
"In the case of the fallacy derived from the alleged irrevocable nature of certain
laws, or, to speak briefly, the fallacy of irrevocable laws, ..."
13. Essays on the Principles of Morality: And on the Private and Political by Jonathan Dymond (1834)
"In a certain sense indeed all personal punishments are irrevocable. ... But if
irrevocable punishments cannot be dispensed with, they should not be made ..."
14. The Law of Patents for Useful Inventions by William Callyhan Robinson (1890)
"Authority of Attorney Revocable or irrevocable : How Revoked. A power of attorney
may bc either irrevocable or revocable. Where it constitutes part of a ..."
15. A Treatise on the Law of Easements by John Leybourn Goddard (1877)
"So, a deed which granted a liberty, licence, power, and authority to f • -ii- f it.
irrevocable (s) Though this is so, it has been wires on revocation of ..."
16. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"The interest coupled with a power, to make jt irrevocable, must be an interest in
... Clearly such an agency is not irrevocable in law because of its being ..."
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