Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not repassable; that cannot be recrossed or passed again.
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Examples
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It is called the irrepassable wall, for when once you have come through you may abandon all hope of returning.
The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell Ellis Wynne 1702
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No descendant of these -- no woman of this temperate land -- could have seen, much less joined, her son, descending the sanguinary and irrepassable ways of treason and murder to an ignominious death, or an expatriated and attainted life, worse than the punishing wheel and bloody pool of the poets 'hell.
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It is not in my power to send any one back, through the boundary of eternity, the irrepassable wall, nor in yours to harbour them here; therefore forward them to their destruction, in spite of the Arch Fiend.
The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell Ellis Wynne 1702
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