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Irredeemable

adjective

Insusceptible of reform. Synonyms: irreclaimable, unredeemable, unreformable. "Irredeemable sinners"

(of paper money) not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder.

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"Irredeemable" Quotes from Famous Books

... next to Australia, we find a country of more than two-thirds the area of the United States, with a temperate climate and immense resources, agricultural and mineral,—a country sparsely peopled by a race of irredeemable savages hardly above the level of brutes. Here England within the present century has planted six greatly thriving states, concerning which I have not time to say much, but one fact will serve as a specimen. When in America we wish to illustrate in one word the wonderful ...

— American Political Ideas Viewed From The Standpoint Of Universal History • John Fiske

... should be placed in exact antithesis to Kent, as the only character of utter irredeemable baseness in Shakespeare. Even in this the judgment and invention of the poet are very observable;—for what else could the willing tool of a Goneril be? Not a vice but this of baseness ...

— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge

... repelled one way or the other. He would probably try P-QB4. The result is that the Queen selects another good square, for instance at K3 or QR4, but Black has not improved matters, for he still can play neither B-B4 nor P-Q4. On the other hand, irredeemable harm has been done, inasmuch as the Black QP now remains "backward." The attack on the Queen by P-QB4 must consequently be rejected. Sallies such as these, in which short- lived attacks are made by pawns upon pieces, are always of doubtful value. They must ...

— Chess Strategy • Edward Lasker

Words linked to "Irredeemable" : unredeemable, unconvertible, wicked, inconvertible, unexchangeable, irreclaimable