| 释义 |
irreformable, a.|ɪrɪˈfɔːməb(ə)l|
[f. ir-2 + reformable: cf. late L. irreformābilis (Tertull.) and F. irréformable (1725 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. Incapable of being reformed.
1609W. M. Man in Moone (1849) 13, I have heard of some, who through an irreformable conceit, have imagined their noses to be as bigge as pinnicles. 1647Trapp Comm. Matt. vii. 6 Every good man is bound in conscience to pass by them [scoffers] as incorrigible, irreformable. 1856Olmsted Slave States 251 The irreformable improvidence of the people. 1892Illustr. Lond. News 24 Sept. 393/1 She was unteachable, irreformable.
2. Incapable of revision or alteration.
1812C. Butler Bossuet Wks. 1817 III. 262 The fourth article [in the Declaration of the General Assembly of the Gallican Clergy in 1682] declares, that, in questions of faith, the pope has the principal authority, and that his decisions extend over the universal church..but that, unless they have the consent of the church, they are not irreformable. 1897Contemp. Rev. Jan. 40 The Bull is irreformable.
Hence irreformaˈbility.
1883Church Times 31 Aug. 603 All the high-flying theories of Supremacy and irreformability on which Ultra⁓montane writers rest their case. |