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irreclaimable, a.|ɪrɪˈkleɪməb(ə)l|
Also 7–8 irreclamable.
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†1. Uncontrollable, implacable. Obs. rare.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xiv. xi. 26 The Emperour when he understood this, falling into an irreclamable fit of anger and wrath, reposed all the assurance and confidence hee had..in making him away.
2. That cannot be reclaimed, reformed, or called back to right ways.
1662Glanvill Lux Orient. x. 97 Such impetuous, ungovernable, irreclaimable inclinations to what is vitious. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 556 The irreclaimable Enemies of God. 1690Norris Beatitudes (1692) 125 The greatest object of Pity in the World is an irreclaimable Sinner. 1743J. Morris Serm. vii. 199 Good governors may justly cut off irreclamable offenders. 1882A. W. Ward Dickens iii. 69 He had not yet become the irreclaimable political sceptic of later days.
b. Of land: That cannot be reclaimed or brought into cultivation.
1812Brackenridge Views of Louisiana (1814) 159 Of this portion, there is not more than a fourth which can be considered irreclaimable. 1885Spectator 22 Aug. 1097/2, 56,000 square kilometres are either covered with snow or strewn with rocks, and utterly irreclaimable.
3. That cannot be called back or revoked; irrevocable.
1834H. Martineau Moral iv. 132 The only irreclaimable human decree,—that of an enlightened multitude,—has gone forth against the abuses of the Church and the Law.
Hence irreˈclaimableness, irreclaimaˈbility, the quality of being irreclaimable.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VIII. 407 (D.) Enormities..which are out of his power to atone for, by reason of the death of some of the injured parties, and the irreclaimableness of others. 1881Blackw. Mag. July 29 The irreclaimability of the habitual drunkard. |