irrevocability

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Then there is the transition, with its ambivalence and complexity: The irrevocability and exhilaration of it — “All I could do was emote,” Sante said of that time.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2024

Instead, his desire for atonement seems to darken his recollections—faced with the irrevocability of his patients’ suffering, he is unable to escape from its shadow.

From The New Yorker • May 11, 2015

That thought crept into my consciousness, and now I was beginning to have a hollow feeling of irrevocability, of the impossibility of reversing time and fate.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2014

Even as I tried to have my father committed, I fretted over the irrevocability of the process.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2012

Now, she saw it in his eyes, he did believe; and as the patient, hearing his sentence, gazes dumb and stricken, facing death, so he gazed at her, seeing irrevocability in her unmoved face.

From Franklin Kane by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas