remediless

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If there may be some slight allowance for overwhelming passion, for suddenly excited jealousy, or for remediless despair, yet those impulses act only to the extent of inflicting injury on ourselves.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

In China the man or the family which is loaded with a debt beyond the recuperative power of the debtor, finds itself upon an oiled toboggan-slide at the bottom of which is remediless ruin.

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.

We are thereby left apparently hopeless and remediless.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur

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

The evil was remediless, and admitted of very small amelioration.

From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Warner, Susan