immedicable

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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

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

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry

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

The evil was so wide-spreading, so violent and immedicable, that no care, no prevention could be judged superfluous, which even added a chance to our escape.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

It keeps up a perpetual fever in my veins; it frets my immedicable wound; it is instinct with poison.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft