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unreˈsistible, a. Now rare.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
Irresistible.
1608Great Frost in Arber's Garner I. 90 The swift, violent, and unresistible land currents. a1631Donne 80 Serm. (1640) 358 Which reproofe is an uncontrollable sense, and an unresistible remorse. Ibid. 384. 1653 Holcroft tr. Procopius, Vandal Wars ii. 38 To think the enemy un⁓resistible because of his victory. 1760Sterne Tr. Shandy iii. xxxviii, A mighty and unresistible call within me. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn lxvi, The Church..‘by the unresistible might of weakness shook the world’.
Hence unreˈsistibleness, -ibly adv.
1644Hunton Vind. Treat. Monarchy v. 45 He is like to goe alone in this wild untroden path of defending an unresistiblenesse on such supposals. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Jas. i. 13 God..tempteth no man to it (much less forceth them to it, or unresistibly..makes them sin). |