1608. Great Frost, in Arber’s Garner, I. 90. The swift, violent, and unresistible land currents.
a. 1631. Donne, 80 Serm. (1640), 358. Which reproofe is an uncontrollable sense, and an unresistible remorse. Ibid., 384.
1653. Holcroft, trans. Procopius, Vandal Wars, II. 38. To think the enemy unresistible because of his victory.
1760. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, III. xxxviii. A mighty and unresistible call within me.
1891. Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, lxvi. The Church … ‘by the unresistible might of weakness shook the world.’
Hence Unresistibleness, -ibly adv.
1644. Hunton, Vind. Treat. Monarchy, v. 45. He is like to goe alone in this wild untroden path of defending an unresistiblenesse on such supposals.
1685. Baxter, Paraphr. N. T., Jas. i. 13. God … tempteth no man to it (much less forceth them to it, or unresistibly … makes them sin).
