immedicable
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Etymology
Origin of immedicable
First recorded in 1525–35, immedicable is from the Latin word immedicābilis incurable. See im- 2, medicable
Example Sentences
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It keeps up a perpetual fever in my veins; it frets my immedicable wound; it is instinct with poison.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
And the hurt, cruel and immedicable, rankles in the breasts of those women today, as it rankled in the breasts of their mothers of a past long vanished.
From Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.) by John W. Cromwell
But the wounds were immedicable, as events were soon to prove.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
Weak you will find it in one only part, Now pierc'd by Love's immedicable dart.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
The immedicable injury which his constitution had sustained from the assault of Brooks developed fresh complications, and renewed all of the old bodily suffering.
From Charles Sumner Centenary The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 by Archibald Henry Grimké
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