a. [See -LESS.] Without cure or remedy; incurable, irremediable.
c. 1541. Wyatt, To his vnkind loue. In depe wide wound, the dedly stroke doth turne: To cureles skarre.
1579. Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 181. Then is thy case almost curelesse.
1655. L. Thetford, Markham’s Perfect Horseman, 34. Many good horses are left cureless of these two gross unsufferable faults.
1718. Pope, Iliad, XVIII. 99. This cureless grief.
1880. McCarthy, Own Times, IV. 63. He proclaimed to England that her ancient system must fall into cureless ruin.
Hence Curelessly adv., incurably.
1852. Robertson, Serm., Ser. III. xii. 154. Fatally, radically, curelessly wrong.
