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The word "irrevocable" in literature is often used to emphasize finality and unchangeable commitment, whether in vows, decisions, or the unfolding of fate. In works like Oscar Wilde’s, the term frames promises—such as an “irrevocable vow”—as commitments that seal a character’s destiny ([1], [2], [3]). Similarly, authors like Rousseau and George Eliot invoke its force to highlight moments that irrevocably shape human character and experience, whether through the profound implications of a singular decision or the irreversible loss of an aspect of one’s life ([4], [5], [6]). Across genres, from historical narratives to novels of personal and emotional transformation, “irrevocable” imbues the text with a sense that certain acts or resolutions, once made, can no longer be altered—an idea that reinforces the permanence of both fate and human determination ([7], [8], [9]).
  1. An irrevocable vow.
    — from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  2. And it is an irrevocable vow that I want to take.
    — from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  3. No; you must write to her at once, now, this moment, and let your letter show her that your decision is quite irrevocable!
    — from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
  4. I have considered the morals of mankind too profoundly not to be aware of the irrevocable influence of this first moment on all the rest of his life.
    — from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  5. He had begun to have an alarmed foresight of her irrevocable loss of love for him, and the consequent dreariness of their life.
    — from Middlemarch by George Eliot
  6. He hurried downstairs and left poor Maggie to that bitter sense of the irrevocable which was almost an every-day experience of her small soul.
    — from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
  7. This determination is final and irrevocable.
    — from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  8. The word that is spoken, as we know, flies-irrevocable: not less, but more, the action that is done.
    — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
  9. “Tell me only whether this resolution, this mad resolution of yours, which you will bitterly regret, is irrevocable?”
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

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