irremediableness

There are few subjects on which human ingenuity has been more generally exerted, and as few, in which it has more generally failed: whether this has proceeded from the want of invention or the irremediableness of the subject, I shall proceed in the duty assigned me, stimulated by the maxim "Ex cohesione scintillum ex citat."

The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I Charles Lee 1908

The irremediableness of the breach that sin makes in the soul had been preached in “The Scarlet Letter;” here is the other half of the truth, as Hawthorne saw it, the irremediableness of the injury done to others.

Nathaniel Hawthorne Woodberry, George E 1902

There was nothing she so dreaded for him as that any one should take a light view of his act: should turn its irremediableness into an excuse.

Sanctuary Edith Wharton 1899

The irremediableness of the breach that sin makes in the soul had been preached in "The Scarlet Letter;" here is the other half of the truth, as Hawthorne saw it, the irremediableness of the injury done to others.

Nathaniel Hawthorne George Edward Woodberry 1892

The death of even an indifferent acquaintance often may seem to desolate the earth from its simple irremediableness, and much more does the removal of one near to us make the world appear half a void.

The Pagans Arlo Bates 1884

The irremediableness of marriage, as it is at present constituted, undoubtedly deters many from entering into that state.

An Essay on the Principle of Population 1800

The irremediableness of marriage, as it is at present constituted, undoubtedly deters many from entering into that state.

An Essay on the Principle of Population 1798

That is not the dialect of thy language; thou hast given a remedy against the deepest water by water; against the inundation of sin by baptism; and the first life that thou gavest to any creatures was in waters: therefore thou dost not threaten us with an irremediableness when our affliction is a sea.

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601

Reply Obj. 2: Fitness for assumption is wanting to the angelic spirits, not from any lack of dignity, but because of the irremediableness of their fall, which cannot be said of the human spirit, as is clear from what has been said above (I, Q. 62, A. 8;

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas