remediless
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of remediless
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; remedy, -less
Example Sentences
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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
For it would, indeed, be monstrous, having settled the fact, that the public health suffered, from burial in tombs, to suppose it a remediless evil.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
In view of such a scene, is there a young man in the world, who would not form the strongest resolution not to enter upon a road which ends in wo so remediless?
From The Young Man's Guide by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
Slothfulness is usually accompanied with carelessness; and carelessness is for the most part begotten by senselessness; and senselessness doth again put fresh strength into slothfulness; and by this means the soul is left remediless.
From The Heavenly Footman by Bunyan, John
Did they except none from the remediless doom of Hades?
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
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