单词 | remediless |
释义 | remedilessadj.adv. A. adj. 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’. 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. 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. 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