Repeal vs Irrepealable - What's the difference?
repeal | irrepealable |
To cancel, invalidate, annul.
To recall; to summon (a person) again.
* Shakespeare
To suppress; to repel.
* Milton
That cannot be repealed.
* {{quote-book, year=1836, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Is the impious edict irrepealable ? }}
* {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Frederic Jesup Stimson, title=Popular Law-making, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It was anticipated in the writer's work on constitutional law ("Federal and State Constitutions," p. 186, note 8): "The enabling acts admitting the eight new Western States usually provided against polygamy on account of the Mormon influence, and this, with other provisions concerning schools, etc., was made forever irrepealable without the consent of the United States; see Utah 3, 1. }}
As a verb repeal
is to cancel, invalidate, annul.As a noun repeal
is an act or instance of repealing.As an adjective irrepealable is
that cannot be repealed.repeal
English
Verb
(en verb)- to repeal a law
- The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
- Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.
Synonyms
* annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, vetoAnagrams
*irrepealable
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Adjective
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