irretrievablyadv.
/ɪrɪˈtriːvəbli/ In an irretrievable manner; so as to be irretrievable; beyond recovery or repair; irreparably.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adverb] > irretrievably
unrecoverablyc1475
unreprievably1594
irrevocably1611
irreclaimably1662
irretrievably1695
irredeemably1790
returnlessly1840
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 195 It..must needs have been all irretrievably lost, and useless to Mankind.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. xii. 200 Miss Wilmot..perceiving that her fortune was irretrievably lost.
1869 M. Pattison Serm. (1885) 190 The Church of Rome has irretrievably broken with knowledge.
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