English

Adjective

healless ‎(comparative more healless, superlative most healless)

1. Incapable of being made whole or well; cureless; incurable; unhealable.
   • 1842, John Snowden Hopkins, The poetical works of John Snowden Hopkins:

     [...] the hour that Wrung its idol from its core, and left it Bleeding with a healless wound, nor power On earth to staunch and stop the same; [...]

   • 2010, Friedrich Ohly, Linda Archibald, George Steiner, The Damned and the Elect: Guilt in Western Culture:

     A capacity for sin so healless that it makes its man despair from his heart of redemption - that is the true theological way to salvation.