remediless

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It is a faint comfort to know the worst when the worst is remediless, and a weaker than that to know much ill, and not to know that that is the worst.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John

When Christian, in the Pilgrim's Progress, found himself in the City of Destruction, he departed speedily out of it, whereas our professor would consider if the situation was remediless.

From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon

Mr. Lincoln saw, moreover, that war between a divided North and a united South would be a remediless calamity.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie

The time has come when efficient measures should be taken for the preservation of our forests from indiscriminate and remediless destruction.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Cleveland, Grover

In China the man or the family which is loaded with a debt beyond the recuperative power of the debtor, finds itself upon an oiled toboggan-slide at the bottom of which is remediless ruin.

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.