Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to reclaim; being such that reclamation is precluded.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not reclaimable; incapable of being reclaimed; that cannot be restored or redeemed: as, an irreclaimable criminal; irreclaimable land.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being reclaimed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Incapable of being
reclaimed ; notreclaimable ; unable to berestored orredeemed ; as, an irreclaimable criminal; irreclaimable land.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective insusceptible of reform
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Kid McCoy was supposed to be an irreclaimable tomboy, but in this crucial moment the eternal feminine came triumphantly to the fore.”
Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009
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“Kid McCoy was supposed to be an irreclaimable tomboy, but in this crucial moment the eternal feminine came triumphantly to the fore.”
Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009
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“Kid McCoy was supposed to be an irreclaimable tomboy, but in this crucial moment the eternal feminine came triumphantly to the fore.”
Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009
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“Kid McCoy was supposed to be an irreclaimable tomboy, but in this crucial moment the eternal feminine came triumphantly to the fore.”
Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009
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Levity so unfeeling, and a spirit of extravagance so irreclaimable, were hopeless prognostics; yet Cecilia would not desist from her design.
Cecilia 2008
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Who or what has worked him into an animosity so irreclaimable, I cannot conjecture, nor will he tell; but something darkly mysterious has part in his wrath and his injustice.
Cecilia 2008
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The youth, however, had a wild and irreclaimable propensity to dissipation, which finally sent him to serve in the corps long maintained in the service of the States of Holland, and called the Scotch Dutch.
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The father remained the same — poorer, shabbier, and more dissolute – looking, but the same confirmed and irreclaimable drunkard.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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This turnkey had given him to understand that he was lodged, like some few others in the jail, apart from the mass of prisoners; because he was not supposed to be utterly depraved and irreclaimable, and had never occupied apartments in that mansion before.
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And then how pitiful to think that he — with all his gifts — should be irreclaimable, after all.
Hedda Gabler 2006
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