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irreparableness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being irreparable.

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

  • noun Quality of being irreparable.

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

  • noun The quality of being irreparable.

Etymologies

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irreparable +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • That pang of 'irreparableness' which had smitten Elise smote him now.

    The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

  • John Norton will understand the irreparableness of his loss.

    A Mere Accident 1892

  • The waste and pity -- and at the same time the irreparableness of it all -- sent a shock, intolerably chill and dreary, through the son's consciousness.

    Lady Connie Humphry Ward 1885

  • 'It is -- it is -- the irreparableness of it all,' she answered, half sobbing.

    The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

  • It was not his words that affected her -- but a hundred little personal facts which every time she saw him burnt a little more deeply into her consciousness the irreparableness of his personal ruin -- physical and moral.

    Harvest Humphry Ward 1885

  • Infinitely more terrible than his actual words was the accent running through words and tone and gesture -- the accent of irreparableness, as of something dismally _done_ and _finished_.

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

  • Infinitely more terrible than his actual words was the accent running through words and tone and gesture -- the accent of irreparableness, as of something dismally _done_ and _finished_.

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

  • There is something truly startling in this irreparableness of the past, this irrevocableness of the losses which we have suffered through our follies or our sins.

    Making the Most of Life 1876

  • The peculiar character of the evil which is being wrought by this age is its utter irreparableness.

    On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

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