Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not relievable; not admitting relief.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not admitting relief; incurable; hopeless.
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- adjective Not admitting relief; incurable; hopeless.
Etymologies
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ir- + relievable
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Examples
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'I never think, on principle, of things so painful, and yet so irrelievable.
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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(with the blood-poisoning and delirium above-mentioned), sometimes after an overdose, but oftener seeming to occur spontaneously, or in the midst of physical or mental agony as great and irrelievable as men suffer in hopeful abandonment of the drug, and with a colliquative diarrhea, by which -- in a continual fiery, acrid discharge -- the system relieves itself during a final fortnight of the effete matters which have been accumulating for years.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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