irradicable
Adjective

irradicable (not comparable)

  1. (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.
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