ineradicableadj.
/ɪnɪˈradɪkəb(ə)l/ Incapable of being eradicated or rooted out. Also figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [adjective] > incapable of obliteration
indelible1529
uneffaceable1611
inextirpable1623
ineffaceable1804
inerasable1811
unerasible1811
ineradicable1818
uneradicable1818
unerasable1826
inexpungible1888
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxxvi. 66 This ineradicable taint of sin.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 27 And in the corn..Teemed ineradicable poisonous weeds.
1840 R. H. Barham Spectre of Tappington in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 4 An ineradicable bloodstain on the oaken stair.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 340 But prejudice fortified by custom is almost ineradicable.
Derivatives
ineˈradicably adv. in an ineradicable manner.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [adverb] > indelibly
indelibly1611
inerasably1811
ineffaceably1814
ineradicably1846
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 22/2 A winged word hath stuck ineradicably in a million hearts.
1867 Morley in Fortn. Rev. July 48 The lapse of a century and a half gave time for the spirit of independence to grow ineradicably into the national character.
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