Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not reformable; not capable of being formed anew or again; not subject to revision.
- Not capable of being reformed or corrected; not susceptible of amendment: as, an irreformable drunkard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being reformed; incorrigible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That cannot be
reformed
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Examples
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Of course Orthodox usually insist that their traditional, internal consensus, as expressed in both liturgy and theology, makes their belief that the Orthodox Church is the Church just as "irreformable" for Orthodoxy as the corresponding belief is for Catholicism.
Archive 2007-01-01 Mike L 2007
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Of course Orthodox usually insist that their traditional, internal consensus, as expressed in both liturgy and theology, makes their belief that the Orthodox Church is the Church just as "irreformable" for Orthodoxy as the corresponding belief is for Catholicism.
The divide over the divide Mike L 2007
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Comment: the 'Northern State' is "irreformable" as long as it continues to be reared on the poisoned milk from Westminster.)
Irish Blogs 2009
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Personally, I'm a big fan of religious creeds and religious dogmas, but I also realize science is not supposed to have dogmas because it is not supposed to be irreformable.
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Therefore, such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are of themselves, and not by the consent of the Church, irreformable.
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The understanding that Church Councils aren't divinely inspired, or even always infallible or irreformable, IS the Catholic view.
On the state of the Traditional Roman Rite in Latin America -- a liberal's report 2009
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In the combox of my most recent post pertinent to this topic, it has even been suggested that my defense of said view is incompatible with the very idea of certain sorts of act being intrinsically evil, and thus with a pivotal, irreformable principle of Catholic moral teaching: evil may never be done so that good might come of it.
Condomania Mike L 2008
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In my view the civil servoce is now so vast and unweildy that it may well be irreformable and the best option may well be almost full abolition
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007
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That there are such beings is the experience of the saints, of the possessed, and therefore of true exorcists, as well as the irreformable teaching of the Church.
Elemental powers Mike L 2007
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The Catholic Church is full of people who either don't know or don't care about the distinction between definitive, irreformable doctrine and mere theological opinion.
Archive 2007-10-01 Mike L 2007
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