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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪˈɹɛvəkəbəl/, /ˌɪɹəˈvəʊkəbəl/, /ˌɪɹəˈvɒkəbəl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /iˈɹɛvəkəbəl/, /ˌɪɹəˈvoʊkəbəl/, /ˌɪɹiˈvoʊkəbəl/, /ˌɪɹəˈvɑkəbəl/
• (sometimes proscribed)

発音 notes

• Pronunciations with antepenultimate stress are common, but sometimes proscribed.

形容詞

irrevocable (not comparable)

1. Unable to be retracted or reversed; final.

   Synonyms: irreversible, irrepealable

   Antonyms: nonirrevocable, repealable, reversible, revocable

   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Firm and irrevocable is my doom
     Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.

   • RQ:Fielding Tom Jones, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     I have talked thus to you, child, not to insult you for what is past and irrevocable, but to caution and strengthen you for the future.

   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, chapter 61, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     On each face, wonder and fear were painted vividly; each so still and silent, looking at the other over the black gulf of the irrevocable past.

   • 2005 April 28, Samuel Abt, “Cycling: Cipo retires. Definitely. Absolutely. Yes. Probably”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 April 2014:

     Once again, Mario Cipollini has announced his definite, absolute, unswerving and irrevocable decision to retire, and this time he means it. Probably.

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