immedicable

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It was the fierce outcry of a man in torment, the immedicable torment of an injured pride.

From Masterman and Son by Dawson, W. J. (William James)

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

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

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