remediless

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English

Etymology

From Middle English remedylesse; equivalent to remedy +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹɛmədilɪs/
  • Hyphenation: rem‧e‧di‧less

Adjective

remediless (not comparable)

  1. Not having a remedy; not capable of being remedied.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      I driven am to great distresse, / And forced to forgoe th'attempt remedilesse.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:
      As for the rest, this disease is not so easily discovered, except it be altogether extreame and remedilesse; forasmuch as reason marcheth ever crooked, halting and broken-hipt; and with falshood as with truth; and therefore it is very hard to discover her mistaking and disorder.
    • 2010, Pakistan Labour Cases, volume 51, page 55:
      [] cannot be taken to mean that the petitioners have been left remediless.

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