irreparability

The irreparability of the past: once at a performance of Albert

Ulysses 2003

She could not express the piercing irreparability of the injury.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

He thought it time to put between "folly" and him the irreparability of his categorical resolution.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

In a very little time the poor fellow came back quite out of breath, with deeper marks of disappointment in his looks than could arise from the simple irreparability of the fragment.

60. The Fragment and the Bouquet. Paris 1917

The irreparability of the past: once at a performance of Albert

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

He thought it time to put between "folly" and him the irreparability of his categorical resolution.

Cosmopolis — Complete Paul Bourget 1893

In a very little time the poor fellow came back quite out of breath, with deeper marks of disappointment in his looks than could arise from the simple irreparability of the fragment.

A sentimental journey through France and Italy 1892

And what Jesus Christ declared, Christians and infidels do not dispute: the irreparability of shame is, of all the revelations of the Gospel, the only one which the proprietary world has understood.

System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888

That mechanical expectation of those who will come no more is something terrible, but when even that ceases, we know the irreparability of our loss, and begin to realize how much of ourselves they have taken with them.

Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

That mechanical expectation of those who will come no more is something terrible, but when even that ceases, we know the irreparability of our loss, and begin to realize how much of ourselves they have taken with them.

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878