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unreˈdeemable, a. (un-1 7 b, 5 b.)
1584Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 672 Heretabill tennendreis unredimabill. 1593Sidney's Arcadia iii. (1598) 363 Zelmanes graue [shall] become her mariage bed,..before I will leaue a marke in my selfe of an vnredeemeable trespasse. 1611Cotgr., Irrachetable, vnredeemable; not to bee bought..at any price. 1813L. Hunt in Examiner 11 Jan. 17/2 Men, who..would have left us, unredeemed and unredeemable, the habitual slaves of every species of despotism. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. III. iv. xv. §9 This absence of colour from rocks..was in their eyes an unredeemable defect.
Add: Hence unreˈdeemably adv.
1934in Webster. 1987A. Aronson Shakespeare & Rembrandt x. 106 A vision of man drowning among the shadows, unredeemably doomed to extinction. |