irremeableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɪˈɹɛm.i.ə.bəl/

形容詞

irremeable (comparative more irremeable, superlative most irremeable)

1. (obsolete) Admitting no return; from or by which one cannot return.

   an irremeable way

   • 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

     Oh , thou hast given me such a glimpse of hell ,
     So pushed me forward even to the brink
     Of that irremeable burning gulf

   • 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book 23”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

     th' irremeable flood

   • 1767 October 3, Samuel Johnson, letter to Mrs Thrale:

     But when I do come, I perhaps shall not be easily persuaded to pass again to the other side of Styx, to venture myself on the irreamable road

参照

• “irremeable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.