Definition of "irradicable"

Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society".

1876, Louisa May Alcott, “Scarlet Stockings”, in Silver Pitchers: and Independence

Faces at the Bottom of the Well, by Derrick Bell. (Basic Books, $20.) A law professor argues that racism is an integral, permanent and irradicable component of our society.

1992 October 18, “BEST SELLERS: October 18, 1992”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 November 2012

Vatican II, the modernizing church council of the 1960s, emboldened that lay assertiveness among U.S. Catholics as never before; the pedophile tragedy has made the laity's self-reliant spirit irradicable.

2008 April 19, Tim Padgett, “A Catholic's Take on the Pope's Trip”, in Time