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单词 unhealable
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unhealableadj.

Etymology: un- prefix1 1b.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈhealable.
Incapable of being healed; incurable.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isaiah xiv. 6 The Lord to-brosede the staf of vnpitous men..with an vnheleable plage.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxviii. 30 Lest parauenture..thi fallyng be vnheleable in to the deth.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Incurable,..vnhealeable.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Warw. 125 He in his Youth was afflicted with an unhealable Sprain in his Hip.
1795 S. T. Coleridge Let. to R. Southey Aug. (1956) I. 158 Of innovation they see dreadful and unhealable Consequences.
1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip II. iv. 88 In the midst of feuds unhealable.
1891 F. W. Newman Life J. H. Newman p. vi A most painful breach, through mere religious creed, broke on me.., and was unhealable.
absolute.1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. xii. 354 Lafayette indites his emphatic Letter..against Jacobinism; which..will not heal the unhealable.
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