beyond redemption
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]beyond redemption (not comparable)
- Without the possibility of recovery or restoration; beyond a state of improvement or saving.
- After an endless day of being beaten up at school for no good reason, and having to walk home in a blizzard for five endless hours, he took a long shower and went straight to bed before seven o'clock, convinced his day was beyond redemption.
- 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
- “It’s none of your business how I speak to her. She’s my property now,” he continued to Dad and Frank with a sinister smile. The boy realised this man was bad. Bad beyond redemption.
- Incapable of being saved from sin or evil.
- Synonym: past redemption
- Society holds the belief that mass murderers are beyond redemption.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]incapable of being saved from sin or evil