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unˈhealable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
Incapable of being healed; incurable.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxviii. 30 Lest parauenture..thi fallyng be vnheleable in to the deth. ― Isaiah xiv. 6 The Lord to-brosede the staf of vnpitous men..with an vnheleable plage. 1611Cotgr., Incurable,..vnhealeable. a1661Fuller Worthies, Warwick. iii. (1662) 125 He in his Youth was afflicted with an unhealable Sprain in his Hip. 1795Coleridge Let. to Southey 135 Of innovation they see dreadful and unhealable consequence. 1862Thackeray Philip xx, In the midst of feuds unhealable. 1891F. W. Newman J. H. Newman p. vi, A most painful breach, through mere religious creed, broke on me.., and was unhealable.
absol.1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. v. xii, Lafayette indites his emphatic Letter..against Jacobinism; which..will not heal the unhealable. |