reverseless

English

Etymology

reverse +‎ -less

Adjective

reverseless (comparative more reverseless, superlative most reverseless)

  1. Not having a reverse
  2. (archaic) irreversible
    • 1799, Anna Seward, Collection of Original Sonnets, To the Hon. Thomas Erskine
      E'en now thy lot shakes in the Urn, whence Fate
      Throws her pale edicts in reverseless doom!
    • 1906, George Banghart Henry Swayze, Yarb and Cretine:
      A wave of quiet grief swept faithful Imogen with its tremulous chill at thought of the reverseless change a moment of time had wrought

References

“reverseless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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