remediless
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of remediless
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; remedy, -less
Example Sentences
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Our party was a melancholy one; each was possessed by regret for what was remediless; for the absence of his mother shadowed even the infant gaiety of Evelyn.
From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Slothfulness is usually accompanied with carelessness; and carelessness is for the most part begotten by senselessness; and senselessness doth again put fresh strength into slothfulness; and by this means the soul is left remediless.
From The Heavenly Footman by Bunyan, John
Poverty, stern and apparently remediless, was her lot.
From Josephine Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
In the schism among the Congregational Churches in New England, which before 1819 apparently had come to be regarded by both parties as remediless, Channing took the side of the opposition to Calvinistic orthodoxy.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell
If there is any thing in this world that can subdue the passions, damp the ardor, or quench the spirit of a man, it is biting, remediless, hopeless poverty.
From Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman by Stone, William L. (William Leete)
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