Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Incorrigibility; the quality of not admitting of correction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Incorrigibility.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
incorrigible ;incorrigibility .
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Examples
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For house dwellers, servants, or any others, who may break out into such offences and incorrigibleness as the amendment thereof may be beyond what I am intrusted to do to any by law of God or man, shall not the magistrate here also interpose? is not his assistance here abundantly required and always granted?
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The Israelites are reproved for their oppressing the poor, for their idolatry, and their incorrigibleness.
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On the one side she was attached to her king, notwithstanding his incorrigibleness; on the other, she was devoted to the principles involved, including the independence of the
Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters
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The Israelites are reproved for their oppressing the poor, for their idolatry, and their incorrigibleness.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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The Israelites are reproved for their oppressing the poor, for their idolatry, and their incorrigibleness.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Having thus very early set up your authority, and by the gentler applications of it shamd him out of what leads towards an immoral habit, as soon as you have observd it in him, (for I would by no means have chiding usd, much less blows, till obstinacy and incorrigibleness make it absolutely necessary) it will be fit to consider which way the natural make of his mind inclines him.
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If, under these circumstances, he does not live piously, he dooms himself to eternal fire through his impenitence, negligence, and incorrigibleness.
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Still I will not make any further objection to your characteristically firm incorrigibleness in your steadfast wish and endeavor to do the utmost possible for the good of your old friend, now 64 years of age.
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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He is to convince them that it is for their obstinacy and incorrigibleness that the judgments of God are so prolonged and brought to extremity, ver.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Their obstinacy and incorrigibleness under these rebukes: He went on frowardly in the way of his heart, in his evil way.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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