单词 | beyond, past, without redress |
释义 | > as lemmasbeyond, †past, †without redress 5. beyond, †past, †without redress: beyond the possibility of remedy, aid, or amendment. ΚΠ 1543 J. Hales tr. Plutarch Preceptes Preseruacion Healthe Ded. sig. *vv Men somtyme wyllingly must bryng their bodies out of temper.., who for ye safete of the hoole commen wealth be enforced vpon presente occasion.., to dooe thinges out of hand, which without great daunger will not tarye time, whom neither Aesculapius nor any man that hath reason, would to bee without redresse. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. iii. 170 Things past redresse, are now with me past care. View more context for this quotation 1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracle 5 That which wounds my soule beyond redresse, And aggravates my griefe above excesse. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 350 As the Cretan Labyrinth of old,..Involv'd the weary Feet, without redress. 1700 J. Jackson Let. in S. Pepys Diary & Corr. (1879) VI. 232 And were immediately smothered without redress. 1764 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772) II. 189 Damaged their transports beyond redress. 1773 M. Warren Adulateur v. i The manacles prepared by Brundos hand, Cruel Rapatio, with more fatal art, Has fixd, has rivetted beyond redress. 1832 J. F. Cooper Heidenmauer II. viii. 103 Most of the dormitories, kitchens, and outer buildings were consumed, so far as the materials allowed, beyond redress. 1871 Harper's Mag. Oct. 774/2 Any reference to her sister's approaching marriage..would have sufficed to make her assume an air of gloomy grandeur, as of one injured past redress. 1954 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. & Polit. Sci. 20 550 Economically, too, the situation, from a Russian standpoint, was not beyond redress. 2002 Modesto (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 19 Apr. b6 He was..both naive and heroic in his assumption that no political establishment was beyond improvement, no malfeasance beyond redress. < as lemmas |
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