Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being irreparable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality of being irreparable.
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- noun The quality of being
irreparable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That pang of 'irreparableness' which had smitten Elise smote him now.
The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885
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John Norton will understand the irreparableness of his loss.
A Mere Accident 1892
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The waste and pity -- and at the same time the irreparableness of it all -- sent a shock, intolerably chill and dreary, through the son's consciousness.
Lady Connie Humphry Ward 1885
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'It is -- it is -- the irreparableness of it all,' she answered, half sobbing.
The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885
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It was not his words that affected her -- but a hundred little personal facts which every time she saw him burnt a little more deeply into her consciousness the irreparableness of his personal ruin -- physical and moral.
Harvest Humphry Ward 1885
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Infinitely more terrible than his actual words was the accent running through words and tone and gesture -- the accent of irreparableness, as of something dismally _done_ and _finished_.
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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Infinitely more terrible than his actual words was the accent running through words and tone and gesture -- the accent of irreparableness, as of something dismally _done_ and _finished_.
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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There is something truly startling in this irreparableness of the past, this irrevocableness of the losses which we have suffered through our follies or our sins.
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The peculiar character of the evil which is being wrought by this age is its utter irreparableness.
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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