cureless
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Etymology
Adjective
cureless (comparative more cureless, superlative most cureless)
- Lacking a cure; incurable.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart […]
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature F3, verso:
- O hatefull, vaporous, and foggy night, / Since thou art guilty of my cureleſſe crime: / Muſter thy miſts to meete the Eaſterne light, / Make vvar againſt proportion'd courſe of time.
Derived terms
Translations
lacking a cure — see incurable
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