The Collaborative International Dictionary
Irrecoverable \Ir`re*cov"er*a*ble\, a. Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury.
That which is past is gone and irrecoverable.
--Bacon.
Syn: Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless. -- Ir`re*cov"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*cov"er*a*bly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In an irrecoverable manner; beyond recovery.
Usage examples of "irrecoverably".
It was a complaint worthy of the gravity of the senate, that, in the purchase of female ornaments, the wealth of the state was irrecoverably given away to foreign and hostile nations.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
The fame and person of Severus appeared, during a few moments, irrecoverably lost, till that warlike prince rallied his fainting troops, and led them on to a decisive victory.
If the day was irrecoverably lost, they well knew how to deliver themselves and their children, with their own hands, from an insulting victor.
He seems to have displayed the virtues of a general and of a soldier till the day was irrecoverably lost, and his camp in the possession of the enemy.
Instead of executing a resolution, which might have been justified by success, Stilicho hesitated till he was irrecoverably lost.
The provinces that still adhered to the empire were repeopled and enriched by the misfortunes of those which were irrecoverably lost.
When I heard of it I said, I am glad of it, as it will embroil England irrecoverably with the Northern Powers.
For there was another and viler element than mere jealousy concerned in his alteration: he had become aware of a more real danger into which he was rapidly drifting--that of irrecoverably blasting the very dawn of his prospects by an imprudent marriage.
He resolved, therefore, to go to Stonecross, and make inquiry after her, heartily hoping to find her undoubtedly and irrecoverably dead.
Nothing daunted at sounds which, of such a nature, at such a time, and in such a place, might have curdled the very blood in hearts less irrecoverably on fire, the drunken couple burst open the pannels of the door, and staggered into the midst of things with a volley of curses.
The fame and person of Severus appeared, during a few moments, irrecoverably lost, till that warlike prince rallied his fainting troops, and led them on to a decisive victory.
He says that a fire in the college buildings in some mysterious way influenced the President of Harvard to shorten one of his long prayers, and gravely adds, “that if the devotions had held three minutes longer, the Colledge had been irrecoverably laid in ashes.
This secondary totality will be irrecoverably suppressed: razed in its turn.