Irrevocable
Origin
From Old French, from Latin irrevocabilis
Full definition of irrevocable
Adjective
irrevocable
- Unable to be retracted or reversed; final.
- circa 1599 William Shakespeare, As You Like It act 1, sc. 3:Firm and irrevocable is my doomWhich I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.
- 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, ch. 61: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," 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.