An irremediable error. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : irremediable conduct. From Dictionary.com.
The flanks of the Austrian host began to advance so as to enclose the small peasant force, and involve it in irremediable destruction. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Golden Deeds] Reference
Misery irremediable is my future lot!. From Wordnik.com. [The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact] Reference
But what irremediable evil art thou then about to perpetrate?. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
Sad news, indeed, but irremediable -- by no means the saddest news. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
They were turning their backs, as it were, on a sorrow irremediable. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Our condition would have been one of absolute and irremediable despair. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
And, aside from that irremediable fault, I consider the work remarkably good. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference
Within her a persistent thought recurred: that of her irremediable misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Dreadful is that anger and irremediable, when friends with friends kindle strife. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
But as great as our misery is, it is not irremediable; for it is in your power to remove it. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Pg. 162, catastrophies changed to catastrophes (irremediable catastrophes could be avoided?). From Wordnik.com. [Fighting France] Reference
In their madness they have wrought an irremediable evil to themselves, to us, and to all Europe. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
Not now for the first time, but often have I perceived that fierce anger is an irremediable ill. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
She once more suffered in silence; for she was not weak enough to complain of irremediable evils. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference
Martha feared that they would go to pieces in one irremediable catastrophe, like the one-hoss shay. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
Wherever I go, especially in large towns like this, the mischief is evident, and, I fear, irremediable. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
That was the result of Dr Kenealy's first essay and in his second he came to final and irremediable grief. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Duke Charles, the irremediable defeat which he suffered in this celebrated battle might have been averted. From Wordnik.com. [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference
He had thought it a hideous, irremediable plunge to ruin, and yet somehow he seemed to stand the higher for it. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Let us no less admire the candor with which they relinquished it, upon discovering its irremediable inefficacy. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
And, granting that there would be none of this, is it a certainty that irremediable catastrophes could be avoided?. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting France] Reference
It is an important operation because irremediable damage is caused to wine by allowing it to remain in contact with the dregs. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
It is an antagonism that is ever on the increase -- ever intensifying, and utterly irremediable in any conceivable way or mode. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
A fractured leg is easily mended; but who shall restore me the nose of my nymph, marred into irremediable deformity and dishonor?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
Human consciences would be plunged in irremediable misery, if ever they could be persuaded that there is nothing superior to man. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism] Reference
Even the irremediable misfortunes of life do not affect them as they do the worldly man; they have "learned the luxury of doing good.". From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Her mother caused it by dropping her when a baby, and concealing it, for fear of punishment, until the dislocation became irremediable. From Wordnik.com. [Balcony Stories] Reference
The wickedness of the trade was so enormous, so dreadful, and irremediable; that he could stop at no alternative short of its abolition. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
The sight of such an irremediable calamity as this renewed for a time the despondency which he had felt at the first sinking of the boat. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Without such a precaution the imperfections in the mould will be shown on the surface of the object by undulations that are irremediable. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885] Reference
Sir Isaac Newton's historic Fido did not do nearly the amount of irremediable damage when he overturned the lamp upon his master's papers. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
From the depths of my soul I pity a man or woman who bears about an irremediable bodily deformity, or the mark of the blood of a humiliated race. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
A rising fear and a great solicitude laid a finger upon his craving embrace of her; he had a sense of something strangely different in her, of the unknown irremediable. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
Something more hopeless, more irremediable than even the death of a sister, and yet there was a strength in his look which seemed to Jim not to be of earth, but from above. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference
Written biography, fiction which truly represents life, and individual memory are full of conscience have sundered those who truly loved and wrought irremediable pain and loss. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
With the possible exception of the Ascidian theory, all the numerous theories of vertebrate descent suffered from this irremediable defect, and none carried complete conviction. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
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