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单词 remediless
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remedilessadj.adv.

Brit. /ˈrɛmᵻdɪlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈrɛmədilᵻs/
Forms: late Middle English–1600s remedylesse, 1500s remediles, 1500s–1600s remeadilesse, 1500s–1600s remediles, 1500s–1600s remedilesse, 1500s–1600s remedyles, 1500s–1600s remeedilesse (Scottish), 1500s (Scottish)–1600s remidiles, 1500s– remediless, 1600s remeadiless, 1600s remidiless, 1600s (Scottish)–1700s remedieless, 1600s–1700s (1900s– poetic) remedyless.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: remedy n., -less suffix.
Etymology: < remedy n. + -less suffix. Compare later remedeless adj., remedless adj. N.E.D. (1906) gives also the pronunciation (rĭme·dilės) /rɪˈmɛdɪlɪs/; the same stress pattern is also given by E. Coles Compl. Eng. Schoolmaster (1674) and Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1864) and is indicated by the metre of some early works, e.g. quot. c1592 at sense A. 1.
A. adj.
1. Having no prospect of aid or rescue. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > of persons: beyond cure or remedy
remedilessa1500
unrecurable1597
insanable1657
irrecoverable1708
unredeemable1813
reliefless1852
incurable1879
a1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 156 (MED) Y wote y am Remedylesse; for me nothyng may comforte nor amende Tyl deith come.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 602/1 He shall for lacke of such preuencion and help, fall into such raylyng and blasphemy, and then is he remedilesse.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie ii. 158 Being cleare remediles from cure Of all my paines.
c1592 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta v. ii I'll rear up Malta, now remediless.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 56 When the last enemie shall watch my remedilesse body, and my disconsolate soule.
1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 21 Poor remediless, aggrieved and tortured Men.
1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings in Wks. (1813) XII. 243 He demanded these in such a manner that being ‘remediless’ I was obliged to comply with what he required.
2.
a. Unable to be put right, compensated for, or cured.Very common in 16–17th centuries.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] > put right or amended > able to be > not
remedilessa1513
unamendablea1525
incorrigible1541
irremediable1547
unreprievable1593
irremediless1602
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
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
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxix. sig. k.iiii Alas remedylesse, is our lamentacyon.
1548 T. Cranmer Catechismus sig. Piijv He is able to delyuer us out of al troubles..,although they seme to mans reason remediles.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxiii. 118 In all these measure is a mery meane, and immoderatenes a remeadilesse harme.
1640 R. Baillie Ladensium Αὐτοκατάκρισις Pref. sig. B2 It were better by much, before the remeedilesse stroke be given, to bee well advised.
1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life x. 120 This renders their misery the more remediless.
1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 66 Those more inward Resentments..seem almost remediless and irreconcileable.
1775 W. Mason Mem. in T. Gray Poems 156 Such persons as die of that most remediless..of all distempers, a Consumption.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xvii. 189 So, at once Shall remediless ruin fall on Troy.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Prose Wks. (1888) I. 404 There is no terror in the countenance, only grief—deep, remediless grief.
1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iii. xix. 254 The law is and will be, that remediless suffering shall follow sin.
1935 Times 17 Sept. 10/4 I am aware that to remedy these serious defects would involve the expenditure of very large sums, but if anyone suggests that they are remediless I submit that he cannot be aware of how noiseless such machinery can be made.
1987 W. Styron in Esquier Aug. 87/1 I had become fond of..the artless compassion that she lavished on my mother day after hot summer day, bathing her, changing her, trying to soothe her remediless misery.
1992 ABA Jrnl. Mar. 46/1 The fact that those in the limelight may suffer from this pillory of remediless defamation most often is met with such pearls as, ‘If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen’.
b. Of vices, etc.: incurable, incorrigible. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [adjective] > incorrigible > specifically of faults
unreclaimable1574
remediless1603
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 313 The principall and greatest maladie of the soule is follie, by reason whereof vice, being remedilesse and incurable in many, is cohabitant in them, liveth and dieth with them.
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) iv. ii. §6. 138 I must say this vice in them to be remedilesse, because it hath bene in euery age..and neuer amended.
1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe v. xliv. §1 It is the remediless remainder of our first parents' pride.
1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. v. 83 We hold also that his vicious necessity of disposition is curable, and not remediless and desperate.
1690 E. Gee Jesuit's Mem. 99 Sharp execution of Justice upon the obstinate and remediless.
1774 J. Patsall in tr. Quintilian Inst. Orator II. xi. 310 For certainly he cannot pronounce well, who is not ready in retaining what he has written, or what he is to speak extempore; neither can he, if impeded by some remediless vice of utterance.
1814 H. Corp Familiar Scenes xv. 123 The unhappy woman rejected every friendly assistance, and plunged herself into remediless evils.
3. Having no legal remedy or redress.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > of events, actions, etc. > in law
remediless1590
unbailable1861
1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 169 It seemeth..vniust also, that they, especially the creditors, should be remedilesse all that while.
1616 Kings Order & Decree in Chancery in G. Carew & W. Lambarde Rep. Chancery (1650) 122 Whither the Chancery may relieve B...or else leave him utterly remedilesse and undone.
1667 Ormonde MSS. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 59 Your petitioner is herein altogether remedylesse.
1670 in Phenix (1721) I. 393 Such Judgments on Jurors leaue them remediless of relief.
1700 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 577 Finding ye petitioner to be left remedieless by ye Courts.
1788 Aberdeen Mag. 469/1 If he quitted his place any time previous to that, the whole was to be forfeited, and all his loss of time remediless.
1828 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 352 She would be without remedy for any injury sustained by, or claim accruing to her, and persons of whom she purchased necessaries would be equally remediless.
1881 Amer. Law Reg. 29 14 He is in fact remediless in any of the methods which the tax laws provide, and he must submit in silence or resort to equity for relief.
1933 Calif. Law Rev. 21 317 Unless he could sue the administrator, the plaintiff would be remediless until the legatees had been paid the balance of the assets.
1992 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 Mar. c6 The administration argued that the remedies for sex discrimination should be limited to back pay and ‘prospective relief’ so that such harassment would not happen again. But that would leave the student herself ‘remediless’, the court said.
B. adv.
1. In a remediless state; without or beyond all remedy. Obsolete.Common in 16th cent.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adverb] > incurably
but recurec1425
remediless?a1525
incurably1529
irrecuperably1535
irreparably1545
uncurably1548
remedilessly1556
desperately1576
irrecoverably1589
irrecompensably1615
irremediably1624
irremediously1659
remedeless1850
curelessly1852
irredressibly1871
?a1525 (c1450) Christ's Burial & Resurrection ii. 1124 in F. J. Furnivall Digby Plays (1896) 209 It is bot in vayn Thus remedilesse to mak compleyn.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 82 Sir, ye must remedylesse be obediente to me, and rewled by me.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 147 We ar exilit remediles.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 46 Whosoever drinketh, is sure to die of it, remedilesse, and yet without paine.
1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 391 They maintain not that any is left remediless in a state of damnation.
2. In a remediless manner; to a remediless degree. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > [adverb] > in a manner able to be amended > not
remediless1531
irreparably1545
remedilessly1556
unreprievably1594
irremediably1624
irremediously1659
1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon sig. B.ivv The same synneth against the holie gost remediles.
1614 D. Dyke Myst. Selfe-deceiuing iv. 50 It makes him twice, yea remedilesse miserable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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