incurably

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Over the decades, thick sod had overgrown the brick, obscuring the resting place of a patient who died at a place called the Hospital for the Incurably Insane.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2017

A book of 380 pages and 44 chapters, it covers the ponderous questions: Is Human Nature Incurably Depraved?

From Time Magazine Archive

They had explained away Harry’s long absences at Hogwarts over the last three years by telling everyone that he went to St. Brutus’s Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

“And thirdly,” said Uncle Vernon, his mean little eyes now slits in his great purple face, “we’ve told Marge you attend St. Brutus’s Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys.”

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

Yet have I no power To give thee back thy youth with pleasure rife; Incurably thy heart must ache each hour For love frustrated and frustrated life.

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich