Definition of "irreclaimable"

To most in prison/jail, the necessity to be trusted and believed is indispensable. The majority have already lost their stateliness, credibility and so on in the judicial mechanism. Add to that the certainty that all else is irreclaimable in the procedure and you can have the predominant component for suicide.

1991 April 6, D. L. Hall, “To Joe”, in Gay Community News, page 5

Even then, Wingfield endeavoured to retain the hawk by the substitution of another — young Kate, as he called her, a wild, raking bird as ever flew, whose kitish propensities had, some time before, led him to give her up as irreclaimable.

1836, Grantley Berkeley, Berkeley Castle: An Historical Romance, volume 1, page 174