unreclaimableadj.n.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈkleɪməbl/, U.S.

/ˌənrəˈkleɪməb(ə)l/

Forms: 1500s vnreclaymable, 1500s vnreclaymeable, 1500s–1600s vnreclaimable, 1500s–1600s vnreclaimeable, 1600s unreclamable, 1600s unreclameable, 1600s– unreclaimable.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, reclaim v., -able suffix.

Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + reclaim v. + -able suffix. Compare slightly later reclaimable adj., and also irreclaimable adj.

A. adj.

1. Not capable of being restored to a good spiritual or moral state, or reformed from a life of vice or undesirable behaviour; irredeemable; (also in weaker, more general use) not able to change; incorrigible. Now somewhat archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > unpardonableness > [adjective]

irremissible1413

uncleansable?c1475

impardonable1523

unpardonable1525

inexcusable1526

unforgivable1548

unexcusable1550

pardonless1567

inexpiable1570

unreclaimable1574

irremittable1587

unremissible1593

unsatisfiable1593

unexpiable1606

excuseless1611

anapologetic1614

unsalvable1624

pretenceless1641

unpalliable1672

unatonable1689

redemptionless1799

irredeemablea1834

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > unpardonableness > [adjective] > person

unreclaimable1574

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [adjective] > incorrigible

incorrigiblea1340

uncorrigiblea1420

unreclaimable1574

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > beyond reform or salvation

unreformable1556

unreclaimable1574

rescueless1586

redeemless1595

insalvable1608

irreformable1609

unsaveable1647

irreclaimable1662

unsalvable1895

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [adjective] > incorrigible > specifically of faults

unreclaimable1574

remediless1603

1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job lxix. 322/1 To say..: no man shall take harme by my sin but my selfe, is a maner of speaking that agreeth to an vnreclaymable [Fr. incorrigible] and desperate person.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. viii. sig. Mm.vii^v/1 The Iewes..for their vnreclaymeable affiaunce in the lawe are vtterly reiected.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 305 He..faleth into some furious and vnreclaimable euill qualities.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 286 That dreadfull place of torment, which is the unavoydable portion of careless and unreclaimable sinners.

1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 195 He finds her unreclaimable from her idols.

1717 W. Fleetwood Let. J. Burdett 11 'Tis the Proceeding of the..tenderest Fathers..with their Sons, when so enormously ungracious, wicked, and unreclaimable.

1766 C. Berrow Lapse of Human Souls App. 178 They say..that the soul itself is pure and immaculate, but that it contracts this unreclaimable proclivity to vice from the body it is put into.

1855 Brit. Controversialist 6 168/2 Can the sin of the unreclaimable sinner be needlessly aggravated?

1927 Enemy No. 2. p. xxxiii There is no one, except the really unreclaimable fool, who does not wish to see the present world radically changed.

1953 Brit. Jrnl. Delinquency 3 168 It is assumed that apart from a small ‘hard core’ of unreclaimable depravity, the majority of intellectually normal delinquents are the victims of circumstance.

1998 P. Hirsch Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon iv. 59 Barbara had no time for Elizabeth's notion of reclaimable and unreclaimable prostitutes.

2. That cannot be tamed, subdued, or made obedient. Later also: considered to be beyond the reach of civilization or civilizing influences. Now rare.In application to people, often coloured by or difficult to distinguish from sense A. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > domestic animal > [adjective] > untamed > that cannot be tamed

untameable1567

tameless1597

unreclaimable1609

society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > untameable

untameable1567

tameless1597

unreclaimable1609

indomable1623

indomitable1634

indomptable1653

infractible1657

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 401 This kind of men so quicke and nimble, so untamed and unreclaimable [L. indomitum].

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bœuf bran,..a kind of wild Oxe..vnreclaimable, and onely good for the shambles.

1680 G. Sikes Expos. Ecclesiastes 208 The Mystical Tongue of the natural spirit..is abundantly more untamable, and unreclaimable, in its exorbitances, then the figurative, Litteral Tongue.

1852 E. Greswell Fasti Temporis Catholici III. xv. vi. 393 An animal known indeed to the ancient Egyptians, but naturally wild and unreclaimable.

1863 N. Brit. Rev. Aug. 57 The herds of buffalo..furnish food for the uncivilised and apparently unreclaimable Red Men.

1901 A. H. Keane Central & S. Amer. I. x. 330 Many of these..are unreclaimable savages, who are rapidly dying out, not by absorption, a process which has long ceased to operate, but by absolute extinction.

3. Of land: that cannot brought under cultivation or made fit for habitation; uncultivable.

ΚΠ

1776 M. Peters Agricultura 36 Under barren or unreclaimable land.

1792 D. A. Beaufort Mem. Map Ireland ii. 79 The heart of this barony is an assemblage of unreclaimable rock and mountain.

1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 78 It was always considered to be a piece of worthless unreclaimable land.

1913 F. Rolt-Wheeler Boy with U.S. Indians vii. 226 At least one-half of the land was unreclaimable desert.

2000 C. M. Cameron Veto Bargaining viii. 233 The bill would also have put unreclaimable land off limits to strip mining.

4. That cannot be regained, retrieved, or recovered.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > [adjective] > taken back > not able to be

unreclaimable1777

1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Supplicants in tr. Æschylus Tragedies 107 That we might be permitted here to dwell Free, unreclaimable, inviolate.

1879 S. Baring-Gould Germany II. xvi. 247 Till a man's honour was stained, and his word broken, a feof was unreclaimable.

1972 Austral. in Facts & Figures 114 73 Any single clean-up action involving unreclaimable costs in excess of $500 could be a charge against the levy.

1988 A. A. Tait Value-added Tax xi. 223 There could be differential amounts of hidden and unre-claimable VAT on different traded goods and services.

2002 Observer (Nexis) 24 Mar. (Life Suppl.) 58 The four days are there and unreclaimable.

B. n.

With the. Unreclaimable people as a class. Also: that which is unreclaimable. Cf. sense A. 1. rare after 17th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [noun] > person or thing beyond hope

unreclaimable1649

gone duck1830

goner1836

gone coon1837

1649 Solemn Exhort. Churches of Christ within Lancaster 11 Their accutest vigilancy is required, that the unworthy be timely prevented, the negligent, or offensive regulated, and the unreclaimable ejected.

1654 R. Lloyd Schoole-masters Auxiliaries 32 Masters after friendly exhortations unto vertue, and implacable dislike declared unto vices, to prevent contagion in the company, should remove the unreclaimable.

1685 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II I. iv. 220 To pour out the Vials of his Wrath upon the obstinate and unreclaimable.

1917 Rep. Comm. Oregon State Penitentiary 7 The well being of the social requires that the unreclaimable, the anti-social, be disposed of by process of elimination.

1982 Minerva Spring 117 Many of the students in the humanities and the social sciences have been abandoned by their teachers to the domain of the unreclaimable.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	unreclaimable
释义	unreclaimableadj.n. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈkleɪməbl/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈkleɪməb(ə)l/ Forms: 1500s vnreclaymable, 1500s vnreclaymeable, 1500s–1600s vnreclaimable, 1500s–1600s vnreclaimeable, 1600s unreclamable, 1600s unreclameable, 1600s– unreclaimable. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, reclaim v., -able suffix. Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + reclaim v. + -able suffix. Compare slightly later reclaimable adj., and also irreclaimable adj. A. adj. 1. Not capable of being restored to a good spiritual or moral state, or reformed from a life of vice or undesirable behaviour; irredeemable; (also in weaker, more general use) not able to change; incorrigible. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > unpardonableness > [adjective] irremissible1413 uncleansable?c1475 impardonable1523 unpardonable1525 inexcusable1526 unforgivable1548 unexcusable1550 pardonless1567 inexpiable1570 unreclaimable1574 irremittable1587 unremissible1593 unsatisfiable1593 unexpiable1606 excuseless1611 anapologetic1614 unsalvable1624 pretenceless1641 unpalliable1672 unatonable1689 redemptionless1799 irredeemablea1834 the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > unpardonableness > [adjective] > person unreclaimable1574 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [adjective] > incorrigible incorrigiblea1340 uncorrigiblea1420 unreclaimable1574 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > beyond reform or salvation unreformable1556 unreclaimable1574 rescueless1586 redeemless1595 insalvable1608 irreformable1609 unsaveable1647 irreclaimable1662 unsalvable1895 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [adjective] > incorrigible > specifically of faults unreclaimable1574 remediless1603 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job lxix. 322/1 To say..: no man shall take harme by my sin but my selfe, is a maner of speaking that agreeth to an vnreclaymable [Fr. incorrigible] and desperate person. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. viii. sig. Mm.vii^v/1 The Iewes..for their vnreclaymeable affiaunce in the lawe are vtterly reiected. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 305 He..faleth into some furious and vnreclaimable euill qualities. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 286 That dreadfull place of torment, which is the unavoydable portion of careless and unreclaimable sinners. 1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 195 He finds her unreclaimable from her idols. 1717 W. Fleetwood Let. J. Burdett 11 'Tis the Proceeding of the..tenderest Fathers..with their Sons, when so enormously ungracious, wicked, and unreclaimable. 1766 C. Berrow Lapse of Human Souls App. 178 They say..that the soul itself is pure and immaculate, but that it contracts this unreclaimable proclivity to vice from the body it is put into. 1855 Brit. Controversialist 6 168/2 Can the sin of the unreclaimable sinner be needlessly aggravated? 1927 Enemy No. 2. p. xxxiii There is no one, except the really unreclaimable fool, who does not wish to see the present world radically changed. 1953 Brit. Jrnl. Delinquency 3 168 It is assumed that apart from a small ‘hard core’ of unreclaimable depravity, the majority of intellectually normal delinquents are the victims of circumstance. 1998 P. Hirsch Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon iv. 59 Barbara had no time for Elizabeth's notion of reclaimable and unreclaimable prostitutes. 2. That cannot be tamed, subdued, or made obedient. Later also: considered to be beyond the reach of civilization or civilizing influences. Now rare.In application to people, often coloured by or difficult to distinguish from sense A. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > domestic animal > [adjective] > untamed > that cannot be tamed untameable1567 tameless1597 unreclaimable1609 society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > untameable untameable1567 tameless1597 unreclaimable1609 indomable1623 indomitable1634 indomptable1653 infractible1657 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 401 This kind of men so quicke and nimble, so untamed and unreclaimable [L. indomitum]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bœuf bran,..a kind of wild Oxe..vnreclaimable, and onely good for the shambles. 1680 G. Sikes Expos. Ecclesiastes 208 The Mystical Tongue of the natural spirit..is abundantly more untamable, and unreclaimable, in its exorbitances, then the figurative, Litteral Tongue. 1852 E. Greswell Fasti Temporis Catholici III. xv. vi. 393 An animal known indeed to the ancient Egyptians, but naturally wild and unreclaimable. 1863 N. Brit. Rev. Aug. 57 The herds of buffalo..furnish food for the uncivilised and apparently unreclaimable Red Men. 1901 A. H. Keane Central & S. Amer. I. x. 330 Many of these..are unreclaimable savages, who are rapidly dying out, not by absorption, a process which has long ceased to operate, but by absolute extinction. 3. Of land: that cannot brought under cultivation or made fit for habitation; uncultivable. ΚΠ 1776 M. Peters Agricultura 36 Under barren or unreclaimable land. 1792 D. A. Beaufort Mem. Map Ireland ii. 79 The heart of this barony is an assemblage of unreclaimable rock and mountain. 1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 78 It was always considered to be a piece of worthless unreclaimable land. 1913 F. Rolt-Wheeler Boy with U.S. Indians vii. 226 At least one-half of the land was unreclaimable desert. 2000 C. M. Cameron Veto Bargaining viii. 233 The bill would also have put unreclaimable land off limits to strip mining. 4. That cannot be regained, retrieved, or recovered. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > [adjective] > taken back > not able to be unreclaimable1777 1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Supplicants in tr. Æschylus Tragedies 107 That we might be permitted here to dwell Free, unreclaimable, inviolate. 1879 S. Baring-Gould Germany II. xvi. 247 Till a man's honour was stained, and his word broken, a feof was unreclaimable. 1972 Austral. in Facts & Figures 114 73 Any single clean-up action involving unreclaimable costs in excess of $500 could be a charge against the levy. 1988 A. A. Tait Value-added Tax xi. 223 There could be differential amounts of hidden and unre-claimable VAT on different traded goods and services. 2002 Observer (Nexis) 24 Mar. (Life Suppl.) 58 The four days are there and unreclaimable. B. n. With the. Unreclaimable people as a class. Also: that which is unreclaimable. Cf. sense A. 1. rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [noun] > person or thing beyond hope unreclaimable1649 gone duck1830 goner1836 gone coon1837 1649 Solemn Exhort. Churches of Christ within Lancaster 11 Their accutest vigilancy is required, that the unworthy be timely prevented, the negligent, or offensive regulated, and the unreclaimable ejected. 1654 R. Lloyd Schoole-masters Auxiliaries 32 Masters after friendly exhortations unto vertue, and implacable dislike declared unto vices, to prevent contagion in the company, should remove the unreclaimable. 1685 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II I. iv. 220 To pour out the Vials of his Wrath upon the obstinate and unreclaimable. 1917 Rep. Comm. Oregon State Penitentiary 7 The well being of the social requires that the unreclaimable, the anti-social, be disposed of by process of elimination. 1982 Minerva Spring 117 Many of the students in the humanities and the social sciences have been abandoned by their teachers to the domain of the unreclaimable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1574
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