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English
Etymology
From ir- + repugn + -able.
Adjective
irrepugnable (comparative more irrepugnable, superlative most irrepugnable)
- That cannot be repugned; not repudiable; irresistible; irrefutable; unobjectionable.
- 1598, Jorge de Montemayor, Gaspar Gil Polo, Alonso Pérez de Montalbán, Diana of George of Montemayor, page 285
- He conceived by that which he found in himself, the irrepugnable voice of Cupid, and considered (by that he knew too well) the unbridled fury of cruel...
- 1609, Robert Parsons, A Quiet and Sober Reckoning, page 550
- his Answers are so far off from being demonstrative, that is to say, evident, certain an irrepugnable, as that they are not so much as logical
- 1683, Thomas Tryon, The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness, Or: A Discourse of Temperance, page 1683
- it being an irrepugnable tower against all evil and violence. Living well is the best
- 2013, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, page circa 140 (unpaginated)
- the latter forthright betook himself to the four brothers and plying them with store of such words as behoved unto the matter, in fine, with irrepugnable arguments