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    Irreversible (?), a.
    1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, “an irreversible engine; an irreversible process; an irreversible reaction”.

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    2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, “an irreversible sentence or decree”.

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    This rejection of the Jews, as it is not universal, so neither is it final and irreversible. Jortin.

    Syn. -- Irrevocable; irrepealable; unchangeable.

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