irrecoverability

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And a kind of nostalgia, or harking-back to happier days, a sense of their rapid passage, and their irrecoverability.

Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy Edmund Gosse 1888
Because Leila deserves to die according to a tradition that neither she nor her lover can alter, there is nothing for the Giaour to do but mourn her as the lost object whose very irrecoverability is the condition of his constancy toward her. [

Byron and Romantic Occidentalism 2008