Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being irretrievable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being irretrievable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
irretrievable .
Etymologies
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irretrievable + -ness
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Examples
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To do, and not to be able to undo, to hunger and thirst and ache to take back only a short minute of life, to feel sick and blind before the irretrievableness of his own deed, that was still his punishment in these rare hours of darkness.
Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant
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I experienced a quiet grief at the irretrievableness of what was being lost, I kept disbelieving that it was really happening.
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It had needed the irretrievableness of flight from home to begin the breaking of the trance.
The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1899
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