1584. Reg. Privy Council Scot., III. 672. Heretabill tennendreis unredimabill.
1593. Sidney’s Arcadia, III. (1598), 363. Zelmanes graue [shall] become her mariage bed,… before I will leaue a marke in my selfe of an vnredeemeable trespasse.
1611. Cotgr., Irrachetable, vnredeemable; not to bee bought … at any price.
1813. L. Hunt, in Examiner, 11 Jan., 17/2. Men, who … would have left us, unredeemed and unredeemable, the habitual slaves of every species of despotism.
1856. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., III. IV. xv. § 9. This absence of colour from rocks … was in their eyes an unredeemable defect.
