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IRREPRESSIBLE a.
Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict. W. H. Steward.
IRREPRESSIBLY adv.
In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed.
IRRESPONSIBILITY n.
Want of, or freedom from, responsibility or accountability.
IRRESPONSIBLE a. 2 definitions
Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent.
IRRESPONSIBLY adv.
So as not to be responsible.
IRREVERSIBILITY n.
The state or quality of being irreversible; irreversibleness.
IRREVERSIBLE a. 2 definitions
reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.
IRREVERSIBLE STEERING GEAR n.
A steering gear, esp. for an automobile, not affected by the road wheels, as when they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever.
IRREVERSIBLENESS n.
The state or quality of being irreversible.
IRREVERSIBLY adv.
In an irreversible manner.
IRRISIBLE a.
Not risible. [R.]
LAPSIBLE a.
Liable to lapse.
NONCONDENSIBLE a.
Not condensible; incapable of being liquefied; -- said of gases.
OFFENSIBLE a.
That may give offense. [Obs.]
OMISSIBLE a.
Capable of being omitted; that may be omitted.
OSTENSIBILITY n.
The quality or state of being ostensible.
OSTENSIBLE a. 2 definitions
red; avowed; professed; apparent; -- often used as opposed to real or actual; as, an ostensible reason, motive, or aim. D. Ramsay.
OSTENSIBLY adv.
In an ostensible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently. Walsh. Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. U. S. Grant.
PASSIBILITY n.
The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill.
PASSIBLE a.
ing, or of impressions from external agents. Apolinarius, which held even deity itself passible. Hooker.
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