Dictionary

beyond redemption en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Without the possibility of recovery or restoration; beyond a state of improvement or saving.
   • “It’s none of your business how I speak to her. She’s my property now,” he continued to Dad and Frank with a sinister smile. The boy realised this man was bad. Bad beyond redemption. 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
   • After an endless day of being beaten up at school for no good reason, and having to walk home in a blizzard for five endless hours, he took a long shower and went straight to bed before seven o'clock, convinced his day was beyond redemption.
2. (not-comparable) Incapable of being saved from sin or evil.
   • Society holds the belief that mass murderers are beyond redemption.

Relateds

irredeemable

Synonyms

past redemption