unbailableadj.
1. Not entitled to be released on bail.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [adjective] > not to be given bail
unbailable1627
1627 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 295 If the cause be unexpressed, he shall be unbailable.
a1718 W. Penn Life in Wks. (1726) I. 228 We are..then thrown into a noisom Gaol, and there we must lie unbailable.
2. Not admitting of bail.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > of events, actions, etc. > in law
remediless1590
unbailable1861
1861 W. S. Perry Hist. Church Eng. I. iv. 185 The unbailable imprisonment which lighted upon those who declined it.
1884 Imerial Dict. (at cited word) The offence is unbailable.
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