irreformableadj.
/ɪrɪˈfɔːməb(ə)l/ 1. Incapable of being reformed.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > beyond reform or salvation
unreformable1556
unreclaimable1574
rescueless1586
redeemless1595
insalvable1608
irreformable1609
unsaveable1647
irreclaimable1662
unsalvable1895
1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. C2 I haue heard of some, who through an irreformable conceit, haue imagined their noses to be as bigge as Pinnicles.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. vii. 6) Every good man is bound in conscience to pass by them [scoffers] as incorrigible, irreformable.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 251 The irreformable improvidence of the people.
1892 Illustr. London News 24 Sept. 393/1 She was unteachable, irreformable.
2. Incapable of revision or alteration.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [adjective] > unchangeable
unchangeablea1340
immovablec1374
unmovablec1384
immutable1412
unvariablec1425
indeclinable1432
unmutable?a1439
incommutablec1450
irrevocable1490
impermutable1528
irrecoverable1540
inalterable?1541
unreformable1549
inchangeable1583
beyond (also past, without) recall1597
incontrollable1605
invariable1607
unalterable1611
unrecallable1611
untransmutable1611
unreversable1616
involublea1618
irreversible1629
irreducible1633
inconvertible1646
eternal1685
intransmutable1691
unconvertible1700
unvoidable1725
unmodifiable1798
irreformable1812
irrevertible1822
irredeemable1839
true1845
influxible1871
irrevisable1884
intransformable1887
1812 C. Butler Bossuet in 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.
1897 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 40 The Bull is irreformable.
Derivatives
irreformaˈbility n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [noun]
unchangeabilityc1400
equability1531
unchangeableness1548
constancy1593
immutability1593
immutableness1610
oneness1611
unvariableness1611
irrevocability1613
unalterableness1620
fixedness1626
irreversiblenessa1631
equableness1641
invariability1644
irrevocableness1649
undiminishableness1653
invariableness1654
incommutability1674
intransmutability1692
inalterability1715
inconvertibleness1727
inchangeability1773
unimprovability1814
irreversibility1824
inconvertibilitya1832
unarbitrarinessa1834
changelessness1840
inadaptability1840
unalterability1847
unvaryingness1851
monotone1856
unmodifiableness1876
unchangingness1878
unchangedness1880
irreformability1883
plateau1897
homoeostasis1926
invariance1939
plateauing1957
1883 Church Times 31 Aug. 603 All the high-flying theories of Supremacy and irreformability on which Ultra~montane writers rest their case.
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