immedicable

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As man recedes from one hastener of destruction, he inevitably approaches another: "Gross riot treasures up a wealthy fund Of plagues, but more immedicable ills Attend the lean extreme."

From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Landor, Edward Wilson

That his syllables are of ivory I feel, and improvised, but his themes are pluralistic, the immedicable and colossal ennui of life the chiefest.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James

And the hurt, cruel and immedicable, rankles in the breasts of those women today, as it rankled in the breasts of their mothers of a past long vanished.

From Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.) by Cromwell, John W.

But the wounds were immedicable, as events were soon to prove.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry

Life was and ever had been sordid, commonplace, ignoble, vulgar, immedicable; refinement was a cowardly veneer that was beneath any seeker after Truth, and Truth was all that mattered.

From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn