incorrigibility
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- noun
- /ˌɪnˌkɔːrɪdʒəˈbɪlɪti/
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incorrigibilidad
- Five youths in the treatment group were charged with a felony or misdemeanor other than shoplifting, five with a status offense (e.g., truancy, incorrigibility), and three with another shoplifting offense.
- incorrigibility and truancy
Examples
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Girls have been singled out for sexual activity and their allied behaviors (curfew, incorrigibility, ungovernability) and referred to criminal justice authorities by distraught parents, school personnel, medical practitioners, and social service agencies for a hundred years.
Academic text (2004) -
Their "incorrigibility" probably had something to do with the hazy gradation of rank within Kwakiutl society and the ability to obtain new rank through marriage, even multiple marriages, and the attendant potlatches.
Academic text (1991) -
Is this why he speaks of humanity's fatal "incorrigibility" (F, 50)?
Academic text (1997) -
That is, both Harris and Hedges acknowledge the incorrigibility of mystery, making both more humble than their counterparts of a couple of centuries ago.
Blog text (2) -
I guessed, much to the child's astonishment (or was it merely annoyance at having her cherished belief in my incorrigibility so rudely undermined?)
Fiction book (1991) -
The teacher noted the student's incorrigibility, which made it difficult to manage the classroom.
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Despite numerous attempts to help him, his incorrigibility led him back to his old bad habits.
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The judge expressed concern over the defendant's incorrigibility, suggesting he was beyond rehabilitation.
Synonyms
The state of being unable to be fixed or made right
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Surface Forms
Morphology
incorrigibility = incorrigible (semi-transparent) = in + corrig + ible + ity
Formed by adding the nominalizing suffix '-ity' to the adjective 'incorrigible', a regular and predictable derivation.
Etymology
The word incorrigibility starts with in- meaning 'not' and shares the same root as correct, which comes from a Latin verb meaning 'to make right'. So incorrigibility is the quality of being 'not able to be made right', which is why it means impossible to correct or change.