Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an irremediable manner; in a manner or degree that precludes remedy or correction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a manner, or to a degree, that precludes remedy, cure, or correction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a manner, or to a degree, that precludes
remedy ,cure , orcorrection ; in anirremediable way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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[Footnote 1: 'irremediably' text 1668, 'immediately' errata 1668.] [Footnote 2: 'who' omitted 1668, inserted 1669.] 61.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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If you had actually read my book, instead of trying to make a name for yourself at the animals 'expense, you would know I have stated that roughly 5-10% of animals entering shelter are hopelessly ill, irremediably suffering, or truly vicious dogs and at this time in history, they are killed.
Mike Stark: How to Communicate With Nathan Winograd? Mike Stark 2010
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Using less coffee and/or a finer grind makes for an irremediably bitter brew, whereas coffee brewed at the upper end of the recommended range and then diluted to taste with hot water is smooth as silk.
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Reading A Shropshire Lad, you get the idea something has been irremediably ruined, irretrievably lost.
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Using less coffee and/or a finer grind makes for an irremediably bitter brew, whereas coffee brewed at the upper end of the recommended range and then diluted to taste with hot water is smooth as silk.
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Poor soul, here for so little, cast among so many hardships, filled with desires so incommensurate and so inconsistent; savagely surrounded, savagely descended, irremediably condemned to prey upon his fellow-lives.
CHAPTER 21 2010
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There are also a couple of things to remember about the general situation: first, our congress is irremediably corrupt; second, what Obama inherited on taking office was a truly dire economic and foreign policy situation.
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If you had actually read my book, instead of trying to make a name for yourself at the animals 'expense, you would know I have stated that roughly 5-10% of animals entering shelter are hopelessly ill, irremediably suffering, or truly vicious dogs and at this time in history, they are killed.
Mike Stark: How to Communicate With Nathan Winograd? Mike Stark 2010
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But I think we should probably abandon the irremediably religious precisely because that is what they are – irremediable.
A California Ruling 2009
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This is the country where power rules over all social relations and pragmatic individualism has irremediably weakened people's trust in politics; this is the country of Mafia and Fascism indeed.
Ruggero Galtarossa: The Italians Ruggero Galtarossa 2011
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