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unreˈclaimable, a.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
1. Incapable of being reclaimed or reformed; incorrigible:
a. Of actions, qualities, etc.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades 438/1 The Iewes..for their vnreclaymeable affiaunce in the lawe are vtterly reiected. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 305 He..faleth into some furious and vnreclaimable euill qualities. 1652Sclater Civ. Magistracy (1653) 8, Men, who are full of savage and unreclaimable desires.
b. Of persons. Also const. from.
a1656Bp. Hall Serm. 2 Pet. i. 10 Wks. 1863 V. 681 That dreadful place of torment, which is the unavoidable portion of careless and unreclaimable sinners. 1680C. Nesse Ch. Hist. 195 He finds her unreclaimable from her idols. a1716Bp. O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. 258 He is not unreconcileable to us until we become unreclaimable. 1717Fleetwood Burdett's Let. 11 'Tis the Proceeding of the..tenderest Fathers..with their Sons, when so enormously ungracious, wicked, and unreclaimable.
absol.1685J. Scott Chr. Life ii. iv. §1 To pour out the Vials of his Wrath upon the obstinate and unreclaimable.
†2. Untameable, uncontrollable. Obs.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 401 This kind of men so quicke and nimble, so untamed and unreclaimable. 1611Cotgr., Bœuf bran,..a kind of wild Oxe..vnreclaimable, and onely good for the shambles.
3. Not liable to be claimed back.
1777Potter æschylus, Supplicants 107 That we might be permitted here to dwell Free, unreclaimable, inviolate.
Hence unreˈclaimably adv.
1645Bp. Hall Peace Maker vii. 57 Those..who doe pertinaciously, and unreclaimably maintaine Doctrines destructive to the foundation of Christian Religion. 1652Heylyn Cosmogr. iii. 106 Unreclamably addicted to their antient Judaism. |