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† unreˈsistable, a. Obs.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
Irresistible. (Common c 1590–1660.)
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 67 Many of such writings, as come vnder the banner of vnresistable loue. 1610B. Jonson Alch. iii. iv, He will winne you By vnresistable lucke..Inough to buy a baronie. 1614Lithgow Trav. E 1 b, It pleased him..to send downe an vnresistable tempest. 1672Temple Ess., Govt. (1680) 88 The unresistable force and conquests of some Nations over others. |