irreclaimable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- irreclaimability noun
- irreclaimableness noun
- irreclaimably adverb
Etymology
Origin of irreclaimable
First recorded in 1600–10; ir- 2 + reclaimable ( def. )
Example Sentences
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America lost 56,480 men in Viet Nam, the last irreclaimable body count.
From Time Magazine Archive
He understood that once Cully had slept in freedom for a whole night he would be wild again and irreclaimable.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
I say prosperity rather than competence, for it is probable that no sum could have put order into his affairs or sufficed for his irreclaimable habits of dissipation.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George
Many of them are hardened to the life, irreclaimable; there are convicts who go off after having served their time, even after they have been put on some land as their own.
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Mr Justice Bligh was an inveterate and even an irreclaimable early riser.
From A Bride from the Bush by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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