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incorrigible, a. (n.)|ɪnˈkɒrɪdʒɪb(ə)l|
Forms: 4 incorygibile, 5 -corigibyll, -corrygyble, 6– incorrigible, (6 -ibill, -yble).
[a. F. incorrigible (1334 in Hatz.-Darm.), or ad. L. incorrigibilis (Seneca), f. in- (in-3) + *corrigibilis corrigible, f. corrigĕre to correct: see -ible.]
A. adj. Incapable of being corrected or amended.
1. Bad or depraved beyond correction or reform: of persons, their habits, etc.
a1340Hampole Psalter xiii. 5 Incorygibile malice vndire þe lippes of þaim. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 68 Y hadde wende they had be incorrygyble. 1583Babington Commandm. iii. (1637) 28 Then is the partie..incorrigible, and past all hope of amendment in mans eyes. 1655R. Younge Agst. Drunkards 6 An habituated, infatuated, incorrigible, cauterized Drunkard. 1710Steele Tatler No. 231 ⁋1 Many ill Habits..which, after we have indulged our selves in them, become incorrigible. 1788Disinterested Love I. 95, I found you incorrigible to my remonstrances. c1850Arab. Nts. (Rtldg.) 527 His father continually chastised him, yet still Aladdin remained incorrigible.
†2. Of something faulty or defective: That cannot be improved or set right. Of disease: Incurable.
1540–1Elyot Image Gov. 5 The most miserable astate of the weale publyke, and as it semed incorrigible. 1668H. More Div. Dial. i. xxxviii. (1713) 85 The loss is many times irrecoverable, and the inconvenience incorrigible. 1740Warburton Div. Legat. v. i. Wks. 1811 V. 16 The soil of Judea was absolutely incorrigible. 1804Abernethy Surgical Obs. 45 A malignant ulcer, which..was incorrigible by any medical means employed.
3. Not liable or open to correction; so good that it cannot be improved. Also, not verifiable; that cannot be proved false.
1611R. Peake tr. Serlio's 3rd Bk. Archit. A b, The Reader being well instructed..may, without any further labour, make a good and incorrigible peece of worke. 1946A. J. Ayer Lang., Truth & Logic (ed. 2) 10 What may be said to verify them [sc. basic propositions] conclusively is the occurrence of the experience to which they uniquely refer... Propositions of this kind are ‘incorrigible’..it is impossible to be mistaken about them except in a verbal sense. 1956― Probl. Knowl. 54 These experiential statements..are taken as basic because they are held to be ‘incorrigible’. Ibid. 55 Experiential statements are not incorrigible in the sense that once they have been discovered to be true they cannot subsequently be denied.
B. n.
1. One who is incorrigible.
1746W. Horsley Fool (1748) I. 245 The Man is an Incorrigible; all gentle Rebukes are lost upon him. 1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 279 Lazy incorrigibles, ready to resume their thievish practices again.
2. Something not open to verification.
1936H. H. Price Truth & Corrigibility 28 Innumerable judgements..will have to be admitted as incorrigibles. |