remediless en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹɛmədilɪs/
Etymology
From Middle English remedylesse; equivalent to remedy + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not having a remedy; not capable of being remedied.
I driven am to great distresse, / And forced to forgoe th'attempt remedilesse.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:[…] cannot be taken to mean that the petitioners have been left remediless.
2010, Pakistan Labour Cases, volume 51, page 55:As for the rest, this disease is not so easily discovered, except it be altogether extreame and remedilesse; forasmuch as reason marcheth ever crooked, halting and broken-hipt; and with falshood as with truth; and therefore it is very hard to discover her mistaking and disorder.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC: