irreformable

[ir-i-fawr-muh-buhl]

adjective

1. insusceptible to reforming influences; incorrigible.

2. not subject to improvement; final; perfect.

   irreformable doctrine.

Word History and Origins

Origin of irreformable¹

First recorded in 1600–10; ir- ² + reform ( def. ) + -able

Example Sentences

The latest scandal indicates that the bank “may be irreformable,” Vatican journalist Thavis writes.

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Irreformable, ir-re-for′ma-bl, adj. not reformable, not subject to revision or improvement.

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Gallicanism, which demanded fixed guarantees against papal decisions, has paved the way, according to Margotti, for constitutionalism and parliamentarism; for after a Pope whose decrees ex cathedrâ are not irreformable, comes a king limited by the Constitution, and then the era of parliamentary revolutions and political storms is introduced.

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The Old Luptonian no more thinks of arguing a question than does the Holy Father, and his conversation is a series of irreformable dogmas, and the captious person who questions any one article is made to feel himself a cad and an outsider.

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There are times when severity is necessary, as when a crime was malicious and cold-blooded, when an offender is stubborn and irreformable, and when mildness will harm the public welfare or invite the sinner to repeat his offense.

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