immedicable

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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

He was brought up to believe in God and he has never felt with poignant sympathy enough the abysmal, immedicable woes of human-kind to have his faith disturbed.

From Christianity and Progress by Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

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)