irreclaimable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
ir- + reclaimable
Adjective[edit]
irreclaimable
- Incapable of being reclaimed; not reclaimable.
- irreclaimable land
- Unredeemable.
- an irreclaimable criminal
- 1836, Grantley Berkeley, Berkeley Castle: An Historical Romance (volume 1, page 174)
- Even then, Wingfield endeavoured to retain the hawk by the substitution of another — young Kate, as he called her, a wild, raking bird as ever flew, whose kitish propensities had, some time before, led him to give her up as irreclaimable.
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References[edit]
- irreclaimable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- irreclaimable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.