Irreparableness

That pang of 'irreparableness' which had smitten Elise smote him now. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

John Norton will understand the irreparableness of his loss. ❋ Unknown (1892)

The waste and pity -- and at the same time the irreparableness of it all -- sent a shock, intolerably chill and dreary, through the son's consciousness. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

'It is -- it is -- the irreparableness of it all,' she answered, half sobbing. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

It was not his words that affected her -- but a hundred little personal facts which every time she saw him burnt a little more deeply into her consciousness the irreparableness of his personal ruin -- physical and moral. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

Infinitely more terrible than his actual words was the accent running through words and tone and gesture -- the accent of irreparableness, as of something dismally _done_ and _finished_. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

There is something truly startling in this irreparableness of the past, this irrevocableness of the losses which we have suffered through our follies or our sins. ❋ Unknown (1876)

The peculiar character of the evil which is being wrought by this age is its utter irreparableness. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)