Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an ineradicable manner; so as not to be eradicable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb So as not to be eradicable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an ineradicable manner

Etymologies

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ineradicable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • A point one reaches when a system that started out marginally sane, and may—we will never know—have prevented tens of millions of deaths in conventional wars, becomes irrevocably and ineradicably suicidally insane?

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • This seal had been stamped upon him again, and ineradicably, on his second return from the Wild, when the long famine was over and there was fish once more in the village of Grey

    The Love-Master 2010

  • Given that anybody old enough to appreciate and/or be interested in the boyfriend-girlfriend stuff would also be highly unlikely to be sitting through an ineradicably WFP with the rest of the family on Boxing Day, it might have been easier and tonally more consistent just to leave it out.

    TV review: The Borrowers; The Royal Bodyguard 2011

  • A point one reaches when a system that started out marginally sane, and may—we will never know—have prevented tens of millions of deaths in conventional wars, becomes irrevocably and ineradicably suicidally insane?

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • Arrietty was upgraded from 14 to 16 so that she and Spiller could flirt and semi-Get It On, which sat awkwardly within what is an essentially, ineradicably whimsical fantasy piece.

    TV review: The Borrowers; The Royal Bodyguard 2011

  • Prothero does not deny the evils that have been done in the name of God; he insists that it is precisely a religion's mixture of dark and light, its potential for good and evil, that makes each and every religion so distinctive and so ineradicably human.

    Book review: 'God Is Not One,' by Stephen Prothero 2010

  • Those who had given Milan any hope before the game thought their only approach, banking on a belief that Capello's instincts were ineradicably conservative, would be to do to Barcelona what Internazionale did to the Catalans in this year's semi-final.

    Cornered Fabio Capello knows precisely how to square the circle 2010

  • Prothero does not deny the evils that have been done in the name of God; he insists that it is precisely a religion's mixture of dark and light, its potential for good and evil, that makes each and every religion so distinctive and so ineradicably human.

    Book review: 'God Is Not One,' by Stephen Prothero 2010

  • Those huge triffid-like columns that look so ineradicably healthy now, wither and dry slowly over the autumn, until they are mere hollowed-out skeletons by November.

    Country diary 2010

  • He is a distinguished scholar of medieval history who believes the world is eternally and ineradicably riddled with genocidal anti-Semitism.

    Johann Hari: Israel Is About to Make a Misjudgement as Disastrous as Gaza 2009

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