immedicable

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In the south, the disease, virulent and immedicable, had nearly annihilated the race of man; storm and inundation, poisonous winds and blights, filled up the measure of suffering.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

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

The immedicable injury which his constitution had sustained from the assault of Brooks developed fresh complications, and renewed all of the old bodily suffering.

From Charles Sumner Centenary The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 by Grimké, Archibald Henry

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.