What's the difference between incorrigible and irreparable?

Incorrigible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error.
  • (n.) One who is corrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He may be victim of an incorrigible cronyism, and his overdue attempt to reform Britain’s welfare state has left many rough edges, some of them inexcusable.
  • (2) But more importantly, the museum's exhibitions keep surfacing the "incorrigible plurality" – as the poet Louis MacNeice put it – of human beings and how that manifests in the communities, nation states and empires they build.
  • (3) Journalists have colluded in the self-pleasuring of Boris Johnson by obsessing over which side of the fence that incorrigible attention-seeker will fall.
  • (4) Police suspect global Project was actually made-up: a cover story or “legend” designed to disguise the real purpose of Kovtun and Lugovoi’s trip to London, which was to murder a man long regarded by the Kremlin as an incorrigible traitor.
  • (5) For a start, it is impossible: incorrigibility is the defining characteristic of the hardcore Kippers.
  • (6) Exarticulation according to Syme was resorted in order to cope with an incorrigible abnormal position of the foot and for leg length inequality.
  • (7) And there are entries that point to Peel as an incorrigible collector and tireless champion of the recherche: with all due respect to an oeuvre that included the piquant-sounding Fuckin' 4 Bucks and I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, how many albums by Washington DC splattercore pioneers the Accüsed does one man really need?
  • (8) But they are more or less ignorant, and it is that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill."
  • (9) Eve Ensler and her incorrigible team have done so much to bring about this campaign.
  • (10) After she accused a neighbour of attempting to rape her, the 10-year-old Holiday, an incorrigible truant, was sent to a Catholic reform school until her mother secured her release.
  • (11) In fact, being drawn so narrowly from the category Occasion Wear, the costumes and photographs could scarcely have been better chosen to overlay memories of the surge of royal-blaming that Diana’s death inspired in 1997 – of her own reinvention as a global charity envoy and amateur healer, of her appointment as feminist heroine as well as tabloid goddess and, above all, of her magnificent achievements as the royal family’s incorrigible, lead tormentor.
  • (12) Continental Europeans often assume that England is, in its heart of oak, incorrigibly hostile to Europe.
  • (13) Later the infant will be operated, longer be will keep glottal stops may be incorrigible.
  • (14) It wasn't just that I was blind, which people seemed to find very interesting and therefore took a lot of notice of me, which as an incorrigible showoff I liked.
  • (15) He was described as seeming almost to be ‘obsessed with women’, and an ‘incorrigible womaniser’.” One female editorial member of the team gave evidence about “the almost daily sexual harassment” experienced at the hands of Hall.
  • (16) As trade secretary, he would be incorrigibly illiberal, refusing landing rights to Freddie Laker's Skytrain and being duly overruled by the high court.
  • (17) It can be traced back to Karl Jaspers who was the first to mention the three criteria of delusions, which are to be found in the textbooks ever since: (1) certainty, (2) incorrigibility, and (3) impossibility or falsity of content.
  • (18) As Marston sails for Europe, watching America recede into his past, Fitzgerald offers a closing meditation nearly as incantatory as the famous conclusion of Gatsby: "Watching the fading city, the fading shore, from the deck of the Majestic, he had a sense of overwhelming gratitude and of gladness that America was there, that under the ugly débris of industry the rich land still pushed up, incorrigibly lavish and fertile, and that in the heart of the leaderless people the old generosities and devotions fought on, breaking out sometimes in fanaticism and excess, but indomitable and undefeated.
  • (19) There's something incorrigibly Manchester about them in the same way that Happy Mondays are also typically Mancunian.
  • (20) Seven principles under Talmudic Law are discussed which were used by the Court to help determine whether or not an individual was in fact an incorrigible delinquent.

Irreparable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not reparable; not capable of being repaired, recovered, regained, or remedied; irretrievable; irremediable; as, an irreparable breach; an irreparable loss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reasons for enucleation were a choroidal melanoma in two patients and endophthalmitis and irreparable traumatic damage in one patient each.
  • (2) At operation irreparable fibrotic changes were observed in four patients, but in 15 a pattern of proximal focal obstruction with relatively healthy distal internal carotid vessels was observed.
  • (3) The fascia lata sling procedure has been used over the past 22 years in our unit for treating recurrent urinary stress incontinence when irreparably poor local support tissues were suspected.
  • (4) More extensive genetic tests made subsequently (de Serres, 1989a) on the 832 X-ray-induced specific-locus mutations recovered in those experiments showed that unexpected high frequencies of reparable and irreparable ad-3 mutants are actually multiple-locus mutants that have additional, but separate, sites of recessive lethal (RLCL) damage in the immediately adjacent genetic regions (designated ad-3R + RLCL or ad-3IR + RLCL).
  • (5) Removal of irreparably blocked testes in 10 men led to profound falls in high antisperm antibody titres, with production of two pregnancies.
  • (6) A playwright and actor has launched legal action against British Airways and London City airport, alleging that they irreparably damaged her £25,000 wheelchair, made her daily life more difficult and caused problems for her business.
  • (7) The caffeine-induced increase in the number of irreparable DNA damages, attributed to inhibition of double-strand break repair, is in a quantitative correlation with the effect of the cytogenetic damage modification.
  • (8) A time lag between the release of cytoplasmic enzymes and lysosomal enzymes and other observations made in the present study suggests a sequential order of events in which the release of cytoplasmic enzymes occurs at a stage of reversible damage due to oxygen deprivation, whereas the release of lysosomal enzymes may point at irreparable damage.
  • (9) "They fear these reforms could cause irreparable and irreversible damage to the NHS."
  • (10) Newville’s original suit, filed in June, argues that the ban subjects same-sex couples seeking to marry to “an irreparable denial of their constitutional rights” and the state “will incur little to no burden in allowing same-sex couples to marry and in recognizing the lawful marriages of same-sex couples from other jurisdictions on the same terms as different-sex couples”.
  • (11) Based on the results available in literature, significance of an early detection of female genital tract inflammations caused by Chlamydia trachomatis because of its often asymptomatic flow, irreparable sequels of uncured inflammation and possible curing with tetracyclines and macrolides therapy has been discussed.
  • (12) These data do not support the routine use of a constrained prosthesis for irreparable rotator cuff tears.
  • (13) It is clear that the Iraq war did irreparable damage to public confidence in intelligence assessments and policymaking, to the point where it constrained future decision-makers and dealt an enduring moral blow to the global standing of western foreign policies.
  • (14) Neither BA nor the airport have admitted liability for the parts they and their agents are alleged to have played in what Stevens says is irreparable damage to the chair, which is no longer made.
  • (15) Business lobby groups anxious to protect the country's lucrative exports of machine tools, cars and chemicals have claimed Germany would suffer "irreparable damage", losing its dominant economic position to China if sanctions escalate.
  • (16) Irreparable renal damages developed at temperatures between 0 and -3 degrees C.
  • (17) These irreparable lesions include double-strand scissions and some form(s) of single-strand breaks.
  • (18) The political impasses and economic shocks in our societies, and the irreparably damaged environment, corroborate the bleakest views of 19th-century critics who condemned modern capitalism as a heartless machinery for economic growth, or the enrichment of the few, which works against such fundamentally human aspirations as stability, community and a better future.
  • (19) From cell survival curves obtained under euoxic and hypoxic conditions, the RBE for the production of irreparable lethal and potentially lethal damage was derived.
  • (20) To achieve a ban, Apple's case before the judge must pass a four-part test: it must show "irreparable injury" from the devices' previous sale; that monetary damages are inadequate as compensation; that another remedy is warranted; and that a ban on sale is not against the public interest.