a. 1420. Wycliffite Bible (1850), III. 39, marg. Stryue thou not … with vncorrigible men bi word of blamyng.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., xxxvii. 151. We vncorrigible wrecchis conne not sece of oure synnynge.
1539. Elyot, Cast. Helthe, 69. Either for vncorrigible vices, or infortunate chances.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. xiii. 77. To blinde the reprobates and such as are vncorrigible.
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., I. (1669), 62/1. We wrestle against Providence, when uncorrigible under the … dispensations of God towards us.
1692. South, Serm. (1697), I. 489. Such is the peculiar Insolence of this sort of Men, such the uncorrigible Vileness of all slavish Spirits.
