Word Meanings - IRREPRESSIBLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed.
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- REPRESSIBLE
Capable of being repressed. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - REPRESS
To press again. - DEGREE
A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third - REPRESSER
One who, or that which, represses. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - REPRESSIVE
Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures. -- Re*press"ive*ly, adv. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - REPRESSION
1. The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers. 2. That which represses; check; restraint. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - IRREPRESSIBLY
In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden. - IRREPRESSIBLE
Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict. W. H. Steward.