1. Incapable of being reformed or amended.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut., cxvi. 711. They continued stubborne and vnreformable still.
a. 1600. Hooker, Eccl. Pol, VII. v. § 8. The proud, tyrannical, and unreformable dealings of her bishops.
1624. Bp. Hall, True Peace Maker, Wks. (1625), 542. The vnreformable drunkard.
1648. Owen, Righteous Zeal Encouraged (1649), 14. To swim against the streame of an unreformable multitude.
1791. Cowper, Corresp. (1824), II. 274. Endeavouring to reform the unreformable great.
1848. Phillimore, Introd. Stud. Rom. Law, 319. If I may coin a word to express an evil it is so hard to describe, the unreformable Court of Chancery.
2. Incapable of being re-cast or altered.
1624. Bedell, Lett., i. 43. You had that same one onely immoueable and vnreformable rule of faith … recited in your hearing.
1649. Bounds Publ. Obed., 47. Unalterable and unreformable as a divine text.
1837. J. H. Newman, Proph. Office Ch., 267. This rule … is sole, unalterable, unreformable.
