remediless

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If there may be some slight allowance for overwhelming passion, for suddenly excited jealousy, or for remediless despair, yet those impulses act only to the extent of inflicting injury on ourselves.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

The husband can flee from his wife to a foreign land, but what of her who is left behind: her arms are, as it were, broken, her condition remediless, hopeless?

From Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It by Zwemer, Samuel Marinus

Since their danger is so great, their fall so remediless, let mercies be multiplied when there is a chance of that partial restoration which society at present permits.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

If there is any thing in this world that can subdue the passions, damp the ardor, or quench the spirit of a man, it is biting, remediless, hopeless poverty.

From Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman by Stone, William L. (William Leete)

The evil is to a great extent remediless, the complaint to some extent irrational, and unworthy the dignity of the cause.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various