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Irredeemable

adjective

Insusceptible of reform. Synonyms: irreclaimable, unredeemable, unreformable. "Irredeemable sinners"

(of paper money) not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder.

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"Irredeemable" Quotes from Famous Books

... was of Saint Anne, standing a little behind and looking upward. A strange composition, oddly incomplete, giving an impression of sadness, of unrest and of loss irredeemable. ...

— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Various

... issue them. In my judgment it will be found impracticable in the present condition of the currency to make such a discrimination. The banks have generally suspended specie payments, and a legal sanction given to the circulation of the irredeemable notes of one class of them will almost certainly be so extended in practical operation as to include those of all classes, whether authorized or unauthorized. If this view be correct, the currency of the District, should this act become a law, will ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Lincoln - Section 1 (of 2) of Volume 6: Abraham Lincoln • Compiled by James D. Richardson

... far away, of sloughing off the character of Gypsy Nan, and of resuming her own personality again under an assumed name. But that would have meant the loss of everything she had in life, her little patrimony, the irredeemable stamp of shame upon the name she once had owned; and also the constant fear and dread that at any moment the police net, wide as the continent was wide, would close around her, as, sooner or later, it was almost inevitable that it would close around her. It had seemed ...

— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard

Words linked to "Irredeemable" : irreclaimable, wicked, unreformable, unconvertible, unredeemable, unexchangeable, inconvertible