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Webster 1913 Edition
Remediless
Re-med′i-less
(r?-m?d′?-l?s or r?m′?-d?-l?s; 277)
, Adj.
1.
Not admitting of a remedy; incapable of being restored or corrected; incurable; irreparable;
“Chains remedilesse.” as, a
. remediless
mistake or lossSpenser.
Hopeless are all my evils, all
remediless
. Milton.
2.
Not answering as a remedy; ineffectual.
[Obs.]
Forced to forego the attempt
remediless
. Spenser.
Syn. – Incurable; cureless; irremediable; irrecoverable; irretrievable; irreparable; desperate.
– Re-med′i-less
, adv.
[Obs.]
Udall.
– Re-med′i-less-ly
, adv.
Re-med′i-less-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Remediless
REMED'ILESS
,Adj.
1.
Not admitting a remedy; incurable; desperate; as a remediless disease.2.
Irreparable; as, a loss or damage is remediless.3.
Not admitting change or reversal; as a remediless doom.4.
Not admitting recovery; as a remediless delusion.Definition 2025
remediless
remediless
English
Adjective
remediless (not comparable)
- Not having a remedy; not capable of being remedied. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
- I driven am to great distresse, / And forced to forgoe th'attempt remedilesse.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- As for the rest, this disease is not so easily discovered, except it be altogether extreame and remedilesse; forasmuch as reason marcheth ever crooked, halting and broken-hipt; and with falshood as with truth; and therefore it is very hard to discover her mistaking and disorder.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11: