remediless

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When Christian, in the Pilgrim's Progress, found himself in the City of Destruction, he departed speedily out of it, whereas our professor would consider if the situation was remediless.

From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon

The husband can flee from his wife to a foreign land, but what of her who is left behind: her arms are, as it were, broken, her condition remediless, hopeless?

From Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It by Zwemer, Samuel Marinus

Now, sir, as a consequence, in part, of these very infractions, we have rebellion itself, open and daring, in terrific proportions, with dangers so formidable as to seem almost remediless.

From American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander

For it would, indeed, be monstrous, having settled the fact, that the public health suffered, from burial in tombs, to suppose it a remediless evil.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

Aye—aged, aged: a trivial, remediless complaint, common to folk.

From The Blue Pavilions by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir