unreconcilable
English
Etymology
un- + reconcilable
Adjective
unreconcilable (comparative more unreconcilable, superlative most unreconcilable)
- Irreconcilable.
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
- But yet let me lament […] that our stars, / Unreconcilable, should divide / Our equalness to this.
- 2004, John Edward Russon, Reading Hegel's Phenomenology (page 154)
- Kant's embrace of an unreconcilable contradiction at the foundation of human experience is not a turn to irrationalism; indeed, it is hard to imagine a more rigorous and rational thinker than Kant.
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
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irreconcilable — see irreconcilable
Noun
unreconcilable (plural unreconcilables)
- A person or thing that cannot be reconciled.
- 2015 July 20, “Hard Realities in Afghanistan”, in New York Times:
- Rather than the beginning of a new era of calm and prosperity for Afghans, a peace deal with the Taliban will split the movement, divide the reconcilable elements of the insurgency with the unreconcilables who see compromise as capitulation, and provide a small Islamic State faction in the country with the men and support they need to grow.
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