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n. - Incapability of being cured or healed.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Adjective : an incurable disease. ,his incurable pessimism
  • He exaggerates the burden of his sigh, the incurableness of his wounded heart.
  • No time was likely to change the principles of such a man, but his appearance sufficiently betrayed the incurableness of his habits.
  • This is the way to add incurableness to his misery, by tempting him to neglect the only means of taking it off, and so make him miserable without remedy.
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