incurable

• You see it is incurable, also offensive--at least to the Oriental mind. —  As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home
• Determinism makes of the whole world of erring men a hospital, and pronounces {147} every patient an incurable--it is ready to grant kindly, considerate treatment to each, but holds out hopes of recovery to none. —  Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
• The padre's propensity was incurable, and he lost that as he had done the first. —  Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas
• Her sorrow at this disaster proved incurable, and she died in the next year Although the unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scots, belongs to a more northern land, the credit of her talents may be fairly accorded to France, where she received her education. —  Woman's Work in Music
• To expose deformed children as the Spartans did would outrage our moral sentiments; to chloroform the incurable is a proposition that almost every one condemns But this philanthropic spirit, this zealous regard for the interests of the unfortunate, which is rightly considered one of the highest manifestations of Christian civilization, has in many cases benefited the few at the expense of the many. —  Applied Eugenics

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