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unreˈcoverable, a.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
†1. That cannot be recovered; completely lost.
14..Brut 319 Ȝet thilk Northren wynd..lost good wiþoute nombre vnrecouerable. 1448Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 401 Al sumes..bath recouerable and unrecouerable. a1500Chaucer's Dreme 1753 This hasty farme had bene a feast, And now is unrecoverable. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. v, To lament the losse of such a jewell, so much the more, as that skilful men in that arte assured it was unrecoverable. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 278 The vnrecouerable losse of time. 1650Baxter Saints' R. iii. ii. 281 Oh my unconceiveable unrecoverable loss!
2. From which no recovery is possible; past remedy or cure.
1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. 533 The most certaine, vnrecouerable, and most weightie destruction of Rome. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xiii. xxxiv. (1886) 287 To make an unrecoverable wound in your bellie. 1608Machin Dumbe Knt. iii, I doe not think this ill Is yet so big as un⁓recoverable. 1644Vicars God in Mount 1 An unrecoverable cursed estate of damnation. 1888Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. Feb. 333 Loss of memory is so commonly associated with unrecoverable cases. |