Adjective : an irrecoverable debt. ,an irrecoverable loss. From Dictionary.com.
All of that lay irrecoverably in the distant past. From Wordnik.com. [Bonapar and Leland] Reference
She believed, that he was now married, and irrecoverably lost. From Wordnik.com. [The Italian] Reference
The conflict was over — her future destiny was irrecoverably fixed. From Wordnik.com. [The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale] Reference
Being in this condition, O Heaven! cried he, I am irrecoverably undone!. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
Association itself was in the same condition -- gone irrecoverably likewise. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
We should value much these interesting memorials; but they are now irrecoverably lost. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
Bagnigge was lying ill chez lui; and the five-and-twenty thousand were irrecoverably his. From Wordnik.com. [Novels by Eminent Hands] Reference
His lectures on this subject, having been lent to a friend who never returned them, are irrecoverably lost. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
This was the same bason that had been plunder'd by the souldiers, and recovered again, but irrecoverably lost now. From Wordnik.com. [The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral] Reference
Such an one may not indeed be irrecoverably lost; but it will be years before he will be able to regain a firm foothold. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference
On awakening from his delusion, he finds that he has fallen irrecoverably from honour and from the favour of the Greeks. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference
Yet, saith he, the things of thy peace are now hid from thee; -- so as that they must irrecoverably and eternally perish. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
This is what makes Boswell's Life continue to seem so modern, whereas Johnson's works seem irrecoverably stranded in their time. From Wordnik.com. [Bozzy's Life] Reference
In fact, chances are that nobody is reading these books at all, save only the irrecoverably dedicated or others of unsound mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Sordid Depths of Blurb Quoting : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
The farther we go, we shall only lose ourselves the more irrecoverably, and be the deeper entangled in difficulties and mistakes. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley] Reference
QUOTATION: The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Gibbon (1737-94)] Reference
Must the hope of happy comradeship in future years be put aside, and with the disappointment his father age and weaken irrecoverably?. From Wordnik.com. [The First Soprano] Reference
As long as we remain among you, we shall be a distinct race -- an extraneous mass of men irrecoverably excluded from your institutions. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
Profit by the sad experience of so many victims of confession who have been irretrievably lost, irrecoverably ruined for time and eternity. From Wordnik.com. [The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional] Reference
Clementina della Porretta, whom she allowed to have had great merit; but who, having irrecoverably been put out of her right mind, was shut up at. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Then calling to one of the apprentices in the shop: 'My vastly good boy,' he cried, 'do you want to see me irrecoverably subdued by this immensely inhuman heat?'. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
He said that they were lost for ever, and it was useless to make any further enquiry after them; for to look after what was irrecoverably lost, was losing time to no purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805] Reference
What is it that irrecoverably binds me to this spot?. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
France should not be assisted in throwing herself irrecoverably into the arms of Spain. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
I felt as if I had only just been torn from Clara, but she stood in a mist, irrecoverably distant. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
Rysbrach has perfectly mended the Ganymede and the model, which to me seemed irrecoverably smashed. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
Months after I felt as if I had only just been torn from Clara, but she stood in a mist, irrecoverably distant. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
I have lost, too, the Dumenil in Ph ` edre and Merope, two of her principal parts, but I hope not irrecoverably. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
I knew that I had caused the problems, and once the players lost all faith in my judgment, the game was irrecoverably gone. From Wordnik.com. [Soccer Blogs - latest posts] Reference
The sun restores them a little, but as winter advances, they become irrecoverably cured, and droop at the ends of the branches. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
For basically the western financial system is a ponzi scam which has reached its mathematical limit and so is irrecoverably dead. From Wordnik.com. [- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community] Reference
But ceasing to think of the past which, as irrecoverably gone, it was useless to regret, even were there cause to regret it, what should. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye] Reference
Kowenstyn was irrecoverably in the hands of the enemy, and now all the lesser forts in the immediate vicinity of Antwerp-Borght, Hoboken. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
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