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Baden-Baden received the Mayor with flags and cheering, despite the immediate outcropping of his ir- repressible tendency to jest�this time a decision that the town "ought to be called Good & Gooder."

From Time Magazine Archive

This prefix thus appears as en-, i-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, as enemy, ignoble, illegal, immortal, infirm, irregular.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

This prefix thus appears as am-, an-, em-, en-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, as ambush, anoint, embrace, enclose, illude, immure, include, irritate.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

It becomes il- before l; im- before b, m, and p; ir- before r.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

During all this time the pris- 431:6 oner attended to his daily labors, partaking of food at ir-         regular intervals, sometimes going to sleep immediately         after a heavy meal.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker