unrecuperably

Adverb

unrecuperably (comparative more unrecuperably, superlative most unrecuperably)

1. In an unrecuperable manner.
   • And yet we are so far from the Elizabethans in that our post-Saussurian understanding of language, with its foregrounding, not to say fetishizing, of inbuilt structural difference and deferral—both that between signs themselves and that between the sign and any fully determinate meaning, let alone...1985, Howard Felperin, Beyond Deconstruction: The Uses and Abuses of Literary Theory, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 181
   • Unrecuperably dead, he cannot fulfill the hero’s economic function.2012, Hyon Joo Yoo, “Transnational Cultural Production and the Politics of Moribund Masculinity”, in Cinema at the Crossroads: Nation and the Subject in East Asian Cinema, Lexington Books, →ISBN...

   Synonyms:

   irrecuperably