irreconciliable, a. Now rare.
(ɪrɛkənˈsɪlɪəb(ə)l)
[a. F. irréconciliable (16th c. in Littré), ad. med.L. type *irreconciliābilis, f. ir- (ir-2) + reconciliāre to reconcile.]
1. = irreconcilable 1.
| 1601 in Bp. W. Barlow Defence 200 The irreconciliable iarres betwixt them and the Puritanes. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 123 The very mother and work-mistresse of irreconciliable enmitie. a 1649 Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Scot. (1655) 176 He was an irreconciliable enemy to the whole Family of the Dowglasses. 1863 Ld. Lytton Ring Amasis I. 73 It involves them both in the anguish of an irreconciliable destiny. |
2. = irreconcilable 2.
| a 1615 Donne Ess. (1651) 33 The Chineses vex us at this day with irreconciliable accounts. 1615 G. Sandys Trav. 142 note, Irreconciliable are the computations of Chronologers. |
Hence irreconciliaˈbility, -ˈciliableness; irreconˈciliably adv.
| 1604 Parsons 3rd Pt. Three Convers. Eng. 130 Fallinge out with Luther irreconciliably. 1609 E. Hoby Let. to Mr. T. H. 5 Then did I begin irreconciliablie to detest all the Incendiaries of your Romish forge. a 1631 Donne Serm. lxxii. 727 Illimited and boundlesse anger, a vindicative irreconciliablenesse is imputed to God. 1661 Sir H. Vane's Politics 13, I was naturally..irreconciliably passive in the burden of an injury. 1847 Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) II. 561 His keen perception of the irreconciliability of his ideas with the ideas of St. Simon. |