1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades, IV. ii. 574/1. That vnreconcileable and harde hart.
1618. Fenton’s Guicciard. (ed. 3), 344. The Pope shewing signes of a person vnreconcileable against Alphonso.
1646. Hammond, Tracts, 25. Whether it be reconcileable or unreconcileable with a good conscience.
1685. Baxter, Paraphr. N. T., 2 Tim. iii. 3. Men that will not live in peace, but are unreconcileable.
a. 1716. [see UNRECLAIMABLE a. 1 b].
1896. Advance (Chicago), 2 April, 475/2. Teachings … absolutely unreconcilable with the teachings of the New Testament.
Hence Unreconcilableness; -ably adv.
1650. Vind. Hammond’s Addr., iii. § 7. The *unreconcileablenesse of those two opinions (the one with the other).
c. 1620. Bp. Hall, Contempt., O. T., XV. vii. How much lesse shall the God of mercies bee *unreconcileably displeased with his owne.
1653. H. More, Antid. Ath., I. ii. (1655), 6. The minde of man … will fully and unreconcileably disagree.
