remediless
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of remediless
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at remedy, -less
Example Sentences
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"Prisoners like Landor who suffer violations of their religious freedom in state prisons—no matter how blatant—will often be left remediless," Brown wrote.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
And that, indeed, is the remediless sorrow, and none else!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac
It is a faint comfort to know the worst when the worst is remediless, and a weaker than that to know much ill, and not to know that that is the worst.
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John
The want of any one of the three would have been dangerous to his fame as a poet, but his deficiency in the three together left him to drop into remediless oblivion.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various
Mr. Lincoln saw, moreover, that war between a divided North and a united South would be a remediless calamity.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie
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