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Irremediably

Irremediably \Ir`re*me"di*a*bly\, adv. In a manner, or to a degree, that precludes remedy, cure, or correction.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
irremediably

mid-15c., irremediabili, from irremediable + -ly (2).

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irremediably

adv. In a manner, or to a degree, that precludes remedy, cure, or correction; in an irremediable way.

Usage examples of "irremediably".

In the palace of the widows lives a tribe of women whose chests are irremediably bruised by the power of their continual pummellings, whose hair it torn beyond repair, and whose voices are shredded by the constant, keening expressions of their grief.

The clouds shut out any other sky completely, and under their cold weight the day dawned bleak and cheerless, irremediably aggrieved.

It appeared to have been irremediably crippled, grotesqued, by the age-long weight of Lord Foul's malice.

It appeared to have been irremediably crippled, grotesqued, by the age-long weight of Lord Foul’s malice.

You know, science changes but books are permanent, and I suppose he regretted being so irremediably associated with views that he no longer altogether held.

Why was the event so irremediably devastating to every single dinosaur that existed, while other reptiles, like snakes and crocodiles, passed through unimpeded?

That moment must, in truth, have been more galling and more bitter to the once gallant Laughing Cavalier than the rattle of the rope upon the gallows, or the first consciousness that he was irremediably blind.

The fear that he was irremediably blind was the most cruel of all the tortures which she had undergone that night.

And at that, using so much capacity for so long on a single task brought the chance of a sixfold simultaneous error to the thirty per cent level, so there was one chance in three that when they built the final version and switched it on something would have gone irremediably wrong.