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irremediable, a.|ɪrɪˈmiːdɪəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. irremediābil-is, f. ir- (ir-2) + remediābilis remediable: cf. F. irrémédiable (1474 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Not remediable; that does not admit of remedy, cure, or correction; incurable; irreparable.
1547J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes B iv b, Vexed with intestine warres..to the irremediable ruine and desolacion therof. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 99 Pure wine..if a man doe mingle it with the juice of the said hemlocke, doth mightily enforce the poison thereof, and make it irremediable. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. i. v, A person of a desperate fortune, irremediable and irrecoverable. 1712Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to W. Montagu 9 Dec., I know and foresee all the irremediable mischiefs. 1735Johnson tr. Lobo's Voy. Abyssinia Pref., The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blest with spontaneous fecundity. 1801A. Ranken Hist. France I. ii. i. 182 In irremediable diseases, says Cæsar,..men are sacrificed as victims by the Gauls. 1865Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 62 The conquest of Constantinople..made the schism of the Greeks irremediable.
Hence irreˈmediableness, the quality of being irremediable.
a1614Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 117 Such faults as are greatest, either in their owne nature, or in an irremediablenesse when they are done. 1798Malthus Popul. iii. ii. (1806) II. 105 The irremediableness of marriage, as it is at present constituted, undoubtedly deters many from entering into this state. |