irradicable
Adjective
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Adjective
irradicable (not comparable)
- (rare) Incapable of being rooted out or eradicated.
- 1876, Louisa May Alcott, "Scarlet Stockings" in Silver Pitchers: and Independence:
- Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society".
- 1992 Oct. 18, "BEST SELLERS: October 18, 1992 ↗," New York Times (retrieved 18 Nov 2012):
- Faces at the Bottom of the Well, by Derrick Bell. (Basic Books, $20.) A law professor argues that racism is an integral, permanent and irradicable component of our society.
- 2008 April 19, Tim Padgett, "[http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1732479,00.html A Catholic's Take on the Pope's Trip]," Time:
- Vatican II, the modernizing church council of the 1960s, emboldened that lay assertiveness among U.S. Catholics as never before; the pedophile tragedy has made the laity's self-reliant spirit irradicable.
- 1876, Louisa May Alcott, "Scarlet Stockings" in Silver Pitchers: and Independence:
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