incurably

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It was going to be more unsteadying than she had foreseen How can a woman explain to a man the simple fact that she is incurably--perhaps unforgivably--a woman I don't know.

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  1. So as to be incurable; to an extent or degree that renders cure or remedy impossible; irretrievably. We cannot know it is or is not, being incurably ignorant. Locke.

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  • The deceased were residents of the hospital when it was known as an asylum for the incurably insane. —  Reporters Committee News
  • Mr. Hackett_, by way of showing that he has not ignored the literature of his subject, has adapted from the admirable, but, I regret to say, entirely untrustworthy, because incurably original, MAETERLINCK an entirely new definition of psychometry. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916
  • He told himself crossly that his absent-minded, kind-hearted father, or his incurably hospitable mother, forgetting all about Mrs. Crofton, had asked these two people in to supper. —  What Timmy Did
  • It was going to be more unsteadying than she had foreseen How can a woman explain to a man the simple fact that she is incurably--perhaps unforgivably--a woman I don't know. —  Far to Seek A Romance of England and India
  • Ready as the people ever were with sword or lance--incurably given as they were to fighting in the best ordered times--an Englishman was accustomed to face his enemy, man to man, in the open day; and the Italian crime (as it was called) of poisoning had not till recent years been heard of. —  The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)
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