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Baden-Baden received the Mayor with flags and cheering, despite the immediate outcropping of his ir- repressible tendency to jest�this time a decision that the town "ought to be called Good & Gooder."

From Time Magazine Archive

During all this time the pris- 431:6 oner attended to his daily labors, partaking of food at ir-         regular intervals, sometimes going to sleep immediately         after a heavy meal.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker

This prefix thus appears as am-, an-, em-, en-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, as ambush, anoint, embrace, enclose, illude, immure, include, irritate.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

The line of breakers ran for about a mile from southwest to northeast, and two hundred fathoms to the north of the ship an ir- regular mass of rocks formed a small islet.

From The Survivors of the Chancellor by Verne, Jules

NOTE.—The forms il-, im-, and ir- are euphonic variations of in-.

From New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words by Swinton, William