remediless
English
Etymology
From Middle English remedylesse; equivalent to remedy + -less.
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, “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[entine] 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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