Definition of "irresistible impulse" []

• An urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Germany, who yielded to the irresistible impulse that appears to have been gradually communicated from the eastern extremity of the continent of Asia."
• "If the heavenly delight be stronger than the opposing earthly one, it overcomes as efficacious grace (gratia efficax s. magna), the will with an irresistible impulse for good."
• "It spiritualizes the irresistible impulse which draws one man to another, and it raises the social connection of human beings from the sphere of a convention to that of a moral obligation."