Both Uses of
irremediable
in
Sense and Sensibility
- She paused over it for some time with indignant astonishment; then read it again and again; but every perusal only served to increase her abhorrence of the man, and so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most irremediable of all evils, a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man, as a deliverance the most real, a blessing the most important.†
Chpt 29irremediable = not capable of being fixed
- The evil is now irremediable, and it has been entirely your own doing.†
Chpt 36 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(irremediable) not capable of being remedied (fixed)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus