† recurelessadj.
Obsolete.
Without hope of recovery or amendment; incurable, irremediable; irretrievable.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > [adjective] > able to be healed or cured > that cannot be cured
incurablea1340
recurelessc1425
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > of persons: beyond cure or remedy > of disease or wound
recurelessc1425
unrecoverable1461
remedilessa1513
cureless1557
irrecoverable1594
unrecuring1594
immedicable1596
unruly1596
irrecured1598
irrelievable1670
irremediable1801
incorrigible1804
immedicinable1826
untreatable1865
inoperable1886
unrelievable1898
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > of events, actions, etc.
unbootlyc1225
uncurablea1340
bootlessa1375
incurable1377
unremediablea1382
irreparablea1420
irrecuperable1430
unrecuperable?a1439
unrecoverable1461
unrecurable1465
remedilessa1513
remedeless1523
unrecompensablea1530
inemendable1532
immedicable1533
irrecoverablec1540
insanable1547
irremediable1547
irrecurable1548
unredeemable1551
cureless1557
unreparable1568
unrepairable1576
unmendable1584
unrelievablea1586
remedless1590
recurelessa1592
irrepairable1594
unrecovered1598
irremediless1602
unredressable1607
unsalvable1624
unrallied1651
reliefless1677
irrelievable1797
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 8185 (MED) Þei schulde haue perschid outerly, Recurles..for euermore.
a1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 158 (MED) Fare-well my myrthe..As for the tyme y am but recules [read recurles], lyke to a fygure wyche that ys hertlees.
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Cobham xxv The best salue for my recureles sore Was to despaire of cure for euermore.
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) ii. sig. E2 Tis foolish to bewaile recurelesse things.
1601 A. Munday & H. Chettle Death Earle of Huntington sig. D3v The harmelesse Prince receiues recurelesse death.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvi. 302 His speare..on the breast did light..Impressing a recurelesse wound.
c1613 P. Forbes Exquisite Commentarie Reuelation St. John xix. 218 A most horrible, and recurelesse iudgement.
1636 R. Baker tr. Cato Variegatus 53 To let Time slip, is a recurelesse crime. You may have Time againe; but not the Time.
Derivatives
recurelessly adv. rare incurably, fatally.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adverb] > incurably
recurelessly1592
1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. D3v Vntill he perish recurelesly wounded with his owne weapons.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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