Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to uproot or destroy; ineradicable.
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- adjective rare Incapable of being
rooted out oreradicated .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They are bound together by South African ideals; by black South African yearning for freedom and by a black South African deep-rooted and irradicable determination to banish racism, including the racism of what the West terms "tribalism," from the face of South Africa.
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_They_ but disfigured images of man's rude fashioning: whilst _thou_ wouldst injure the _once_ loved form of God's high creation, -- wouldst entail on the body a premature decay -- and on that which dieth not, an irradicable blight.
A Love Story A Bushman
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It is characteristic of Belgian civilization and of its irradicable traditional spirit of regionalism that the Hôtels de Ville built in imitation of the Flemish Renaissance are particularly numerous, and even in some cases, such as the Maison communale of
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915
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In like manner, inks composed of by-products of coal tar, can be effectively treated, when irradicable with plain water or soap and water.
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When Thomas Bingle made his inspired visit to Geoffrey Hooper in the interest of peace, he took it upon himself to advise his wealthy cousin to read "The Christmas Carol" before it was too late, and formed a permanent and irradicable opinion of the pauper's son when that individual curtly informed him that he was not in the habit of reading "trash."
Mr. Bingle George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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Hollander and German stragglers who were loafing round about, although he seemed to entertain an irradicable prejudice against the Dutch and
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War P. [Illustrator] Van Breda 1892
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They come with the spring of life, root deep into the heart, and cling with irradicable tenacity through life.
The Memories of Fifty Years Sparks, William H 1870
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Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society," but it was done with a propriety which was edifying to behold.
Scarlet Stockings 1869
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Be it ours to spread the mantle of a Christian charity as far as possible over the actors in the dark scene, while we abate not one jot or tittle of the deep and irradicable hatred which we cherish toward the abominable system.
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They come with the spring of life, root deep into the heart, and cling with irradicable tenacity through life.
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