cureless

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Whatever can incite to diligence was the growth of my condition; yet my indolence was a cureless disease; and there were no arts too sordid for me to practise.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

It seems an earnest of "the staggers and the cureless lapse of youth" with which the King has threatened him.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman

The reproaches which agony extorted; or worse, cureless, uncomplaining depression, when his mind was sunk in a torpor, not the less painful because it was silent and moveless.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Not that he felt them still; but to recollect them as genuine impulses, or at best as irresistible thoughts, was to freeze his self-distrust into a cureless cancer.

From Witching Hill by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

Memory pictured her pale and drooping, nay gradually sinking under the cureless malady which brought her to her grave at last.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 344 (Supplementary Issue) by Various