Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • So as to be irreclaimable.

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  • adverb In an irreclaimable manner.

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Examples

  • “Jimmy” — was a tall, lanky man, irreclaimably truculent, incapable of recognising the dominance of those who bestowed his Christian name.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • Only those irreclaimably outlaw already would dare interfere with him.

    The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984

  • In all the time that he has been in the village nobody, I am sure, has had a word to say against him, except indeed old Judd, and he, I fear, is irreclaimably ill disposed to every influence for good in the village.

    Best Detective Stories Hare, Cyril, 1900-1958 1959

  • If we keep this mighty nation one and inseparable, we shall have answered it forever; if not, why then those who revile man as vile and irreclaimably degraded may raise their pæans of triumph; the black spectres of antique tyrants may clap their hands gleefully in the land of accursed shadows, and hell hold high carnival, for, verily, it would seem as if they had triumphed, and that hope were a lie.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • They have done this without the aid of the aboriginal tribes, who have proved irreclaimably addicted to their nomade habits.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

  • That the attorneys and managers have deliberately endeavoured to raise a panic, whereby property might be depreciated to their own advantage; showing clearly thereby, that they consider Jamaica property, even with the laborers, irreclaimably free, a desirable investment.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • By degrees its much tried parent was made to realize that this noisy acquisition to her home was considered unquestionably and irreclaimably, her own.

    The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera

  • He finally settled in London with a vague idea of some day writing a _magnum opus_ about the stupidity of mankind; for he had come to the conclusion by the age of twenty-five that all men were stupid, irreclaimably, irredeemably stupid; that everything was wrong; that all literature was really bad, all art much overrated, and all music tedious in the long run.

    Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches Maurice Baring 1909

  • They stay where they are and become more narrowly, intrinsically Teutons -- irreclaimably

    Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906

  • Napoleon was as essentially, and irreclaimably, a despot, as a warrior; but his successor, whether a Bourbon or a Buonaparte, was likely to be a constitutional sovereign.

    The History of Napoleon Buonaparte Lockhart, John G 1906

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