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

That his syllables are of ivory I feel, and improvised, but his themes are pluralistic, the immedicable and colossal ennui of life the chiefest.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James

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

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

Life was and ever had been sordid, commonplace, ignoble, vulgar, immedicable; refinement was a cowardly veneer that was beneath any seeker after Truth, and Truth was all that mattered.

From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn