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irreparable, a.|ɪˈrɛpərəb(ə)l|
Also 5 irreper-, 7 inreparable.
[a. F. irréparable (12th c. in Hatz.–Darm.; inrep- 15th c. in Littré), ad. L. irreparābil-is, f. ir- (ir-2) + reparābilis reparable.]
Not reparable; that cannot be rectified, remedied, or made good.
a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2082 Dethe by thy dethe hathe harme irreperable Unto us done. 1530Palsgr. 316/2 Irreparable, nat able to be recovered, irreparable. 1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 140 Irreparable is the losse, and patience Saies, it is past her cure. 1631Celestina xv. 164 O incurable destruction! O inrreparable losse! 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. §89 Before he could arrive with the Army, that infamous, irreparable Rout at Newburn was fall'n out. 1769Robertson Chas. V, x. III. 247 The breach, instead of being closed, was widened and made irreparable. 1811Ld. Byron in Four C. Eng. Lett. 485, I pass through town to repair my irreparable affairs. 1888A. K. Green Behind Closed Doors iv, It is an irreparable injury which I shall never forgive.
b. Incapable of being repaired; = irrepairable 1. ? Obs.
1772Hist. Rochester 99 [The building] being judged irreparable.
Hence iˌrreparaˈbility, iˈrreparableness, the quality of being irreparable.
1727Bailey vol. II, Irreparableness. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1778) II. 145 (Fragment) The simple irreparability of the fragment. 1839Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) II. ii. 50 She felt the premeditation of the insult, the hopelessness, the irreparableness of the injury. 1851Gallenga Italy in 1848 i. 10 Italy had been made aware of the enormity and irreparableness of her loss. |