incurably

From incurable +‎ -ly.

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incurably (comparative more incurably, superlative most incurably)

1. In an incurable manner.
   • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, page 37:

     "I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather—that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times."

   • 2008, Isabelle Clark-Deces, The Encounter Never Ends: A Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals‎^[1], page 74:

     it is among the inhabitants of the South that devil-worship is most systematically practiced. No one who has travelled in that region can doubt that demonophobia is a disease with which the whole Southern population is almost hopelessly and incurably afflicted (1887:244)

   • 2019 January 29, Melvin Konner, “A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves”, in The Atlantic‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 July 2019:

     Central to his argument is the idea that cooperative killing of incurably violent individuals played a central role in our self-domestication. Much as the Russian scientists eliminated the fierce fox pups from the breeding pool, our ancestors killed men who were guilty of repeated acts of violence.