Meanings
- not comparablerareirreparable
It is with a feeling of real affliction that we heard of the tragical and irreparate loss of President Kennedy.
1964, Congressional Serial Set, United States Government Printing Office, page 8732 more examples
Unregulated expansion into a region meant by nature to be range country did serious, often irreparate, damage to the land.
1951, Saturday Review, volume 34, number 2, Saturday Review Associates, page 46Teacher’s union, seeking judicial declaration that public meeting law did not apply to grievance arbitration hearings conducted by union and school board pursuant to agreement, a properly denied preliminary injunction was sought against newspaper representee where court noted its belief that private arguments by public bodies could not be used to circumvent public meeting law but based its ruling on trial court’s finding of no irreparate injury.
1971, American Law Reports. ALR 3d: Cases and Annotations, volume 38, page 1,582
Origin
Probably ir- + reparate (either etymology 1 or 2).
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