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healless - What does it mean?

Definition of 'healless'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Incapable of being made whole or well; cureless; incurable; unhealable.
  • * 1842 , John Snowden Hopkins, The poetical works of John Snowden Hopkins :
  • [...] the hour that Wrung its idol from its core, and left it Bleeding with a healless wound, nor power On earth to staunch and stop the same; [...]
  • * 2010 , Friedrich Ohly, Linda Archibald, George Steiner, The Damned and the Elect: Guilt in Western Culture :
  • A capacity for sin so healless that it makes its man despair from his heart of redemption - that is the true theological way to salvation.