irresistible

CEFRC1

/ˌɪɹ.ɪˈzɪs.tə.bəl/

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Where the breakdown of traditional authority set the poor of the earth on the march, where they left the obscurity of their misfortunes and streamed upon the market-place, their furor seemed as irresistible as the motion of the stars, a torrent rushing forward with elemental force and engulfing a whole world.
1963, Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, page 103
Though his account of written communication over the past 5,000 years necessarily has a powerful forward momentum, his diversions down the fascinating byways of the subject are irresistible: at what point did handwriting begin to express individual personality?
2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), archived from the original on 23 Nov 2013, page R29

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin irresistibilis, equivalent to ir- + resistible.