remediless
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹɛmədilɪs/
- Hyphenation: rem‧e‧di‧less
Adjective
remediless (not comparable)
- Not having a remedy; not capable of being remedied. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
- I driven am to great distresse, / And forced to forgoe th'attempt remedilesse.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- 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.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
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