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iˈrreparably, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an irreparable manner, so as to be beyond reparation or remedy.
1545Joye Exp. Dan. vii. (R.), Most cruelly to persecute Crystes chirche and to destroye vtterly and irreparably the Iewes policye for euer. a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 109 We are weighed down, swallowed up, irreparably. 1769Robertson Chas. V, ix. (1796) III. 156 An event happened which widened the breach irreparably. 1839Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life III. vii. 100 The beginning of this letter is irreparably defaced. 1884Church Bacon vi. 125 His sudden and unexpected fall, so astonishing and so irreparably complete. |
