Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being irrecoverable.
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- noun The quality of being
irrecoverable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When all else of human beauty has decayed beyond corruption into the more agonizing irrecoverableness of dust, the hair is still fresh and beautiful, defying annihilation, and restoring to the powerless heart the full association of the living image.
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When all else of human beauty has decayed beyond corruption into the more agonizing irrecoverableness of dust, the hair is still fresh and beautiful, defying annihilation, and restoring to the powerless heart the full association of the living image.
Malbone: an Oldport Romance Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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Such plain truths as these concerning the shortness and vanity of life, the unavoidableness and irrecoverableness of death, then do us good when we think and speak of them with application to ourselves.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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