Meanings
adverbirrecoverably (comparative more irrecoverably, superlative most irrecoverably)
comparative more irrecoverably · superlative most irrecoverably
- In an irrecoverable manner; beyond recovery.
Unfortunately for our knowledge of the ancient Italian mythology, the ballad-poetry of Rome is irrecoverably lost.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 233
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