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
“That out and out irreclaimable scamp,” murmured the Canon with a very comic twinkle in his eyes.
From The Triumph of Hilary Blachland by Mitford, Bertram
He told him that the loose and worthless company which he would there keep, would harden him in vice, and if he was now wicked, he might there become irreclaimable.
From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by More, Hannah
Greene was most undoubtedly an irreclaimable vagabond, as well as a most ungrateful person.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Whymper, Frederick
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