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[in-KOAR-i-jah-bahl, in-KOR-i-jah-bahl] 
adjective
1. incapable of being corrected, reformed, or reclaimed: "I tried every training technique in the book to convince my wife's terrier to avoid defecating on our neighbor's door mat, but in the end he proved incorrigible."
2. fixed firmly; not easily influenced or changed: "Jeff's nail biting had developed into a disturbing, incorrigible habit."
3. impervious to correction or control by punishment; uncontrollable; unmanageable; unruly
noun
4. one who cannot be corrected, controlled, or reformed
other noun forms: incorrigibility, incorrigibleness
adverb form: incorrigibly
Origin:
Approximately 1325; from Middle English; from Latin, 'incorrigibilis' ('in': not + 'corrigere': to correct, to make straight). In action:
"[The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony] is a well-written and intelligent book that proves, among other things, that beneath their veneer of Organization Kid obnoxiousness ('Getting married was like getting a big gold star,' says Melissa, a 30-year-old divorc�e) the divorced young of today are incorrigible romantics, bruised by their experiences yet eager to venture forth again and finally get it right."
Judith Warner. "Family," The Washington Post (March 3, 2002).
"The idealist is incorrigible: if he is expelled from his heaven, he makes an ideal out of hell."
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844�1900). German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture.
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