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unreˈformable, a.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
1. Incapable of being reformed or amended.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. cxvi. 711 They continued stubborne and vnreformable still. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vii. v. §8 The proud, tyrannical, and unreformable dealings of her bishops. 1624Bp. Hall True Peace Makers Wks. (1625) 542 The vnreformable drunkard. 1648Owen Righteous Zeal Encouraged (1649) 14 To swim against the streame of an unreformable multitude. 1791Cowper Corresp. (1824) II. 274 Endeavouring to reform the unreformable great. 1848Phillimore Introd. Stud. Rom. Law 319 If I may coin a word to express an evil it is so hard to describe, the unreformable Court of Chancery.
2. Incapable of being re-cast or altered.
1624Bedell Lett. i. 43 You had that same one onely immoueable and vnreformable rule of faith..recited in your hearing. 1649Bounds Publ. Obed. 47 Unalterable and unreformable as a divine text. 1837J. H. Newman Proph. Office Ch. 267 This rule..is sole, unalterable, unreformable. |