Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not recuperable or admitting of recuperation; irrecoverable; irreparable: as, “irrecuperable damage,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Irrecoverable.
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- adjective Incapable of being
recuperated
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Examples
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By using dated, passe or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, this art embodies a melancholic longing for an otherwise irrecuperable past.
'Haunted: Contemporary Photography' At The Guggenheim in NYC 2010
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In the Clinton story, if there were any justice, a number of chattering-class reputations would now be irrecuperable.
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The lapse of time, irrecuperable to conceptual identification, will be expressed figuratively as the adverbial.
Emmanuel Levinas Bergo, Bettina 2007
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Je veux qu'on dise UNE CAUSE psychologique parce que la Narco est invisible, je suis passé du statut d'adolescent depressif suicidaire a l'alcoolique au fumeur de joint et faineant irrecuperable mais j'etais rien de tout ca!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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For thou art right sorrowful for me whom thou hast lost which am irrecuperable, and yet thou weenest to take me where thou mayst not come so high as I am; and furthermore where thou believest to be in me a precious stone more big than the egg of an ostrich, when all my body may of not attain to the greatness of such an egg.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, this art embodies a melancholic longing for an otherwise irrecuperable past.
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By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, this art embodies a melancholic longing for an otherwise irrecuperable past.
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By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, this art embodies a melancholic longing for an otherwise irrecuperable past.
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Increasingly, he is tagged as a leading light in an ominous and diffuse political agitation, vaguely designated as 'anarcho-autonomist', which eschews the domains of organisation, political representation and regulated conflict for the sake of direct action and irrecuperable opposition to capitalism.
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Unless we finally take some advantages by helping power in defining a line between the 'good' and the 'bad': between those who are willing to talk to the media and tell their life and sometimes that of others and those who stay silent in front of microphones, between those who are friends with professional intellectuals paid by the State and those who despise all specialisation, between those who exchange their opinions with elected politicians during meetings and those who attack the sites of political parties; in short, between those who talk with power and those who are definitively irrecuperable, mad people who are obstinate in attacking power instead of re-producing it (with its categories and hier-archies) - a reproduction that naturally ends up strengthening it.
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