incorrigible

1. incapable of being corrected or reformed 2. difficult or impossible to control or manage


I saw this word in a New Yorker article about Søren Kierkegaard: “Søren was thus living proof of an incorrigible concupiscence and, as such, an embarrassment to himself.” The definition of concupiscence is coming tomorrow.

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