beyond redemption

adj — 2 senses

beyond redemption

adj
1

Without the possibility of recovery or restoration; beyond a state of improvement or saving.

  • After an endless day of being beaten up at school for no good reason, and having to walk home in a blizzard for five endless hours, he took a long shower and went straight to bed before seven o'clock, convinced his day was beyond redemption.
  • “It’s none of your business how I speak to her. She’s my property now,” he continued to Dad and Frank with a sinister smile. The boy realised this man was bad. Bad beyond redemption.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
2

Incapable of being saved from sin or evil.

  • Society holds the belief that mass murderers are beyond redemption.
Related terms
irredeemable

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