Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being unconverted; impenitence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The state of being unconverted; impenitence.

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  • noun The state of being unconverted; impenitence.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ conversion

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Examples

  • Now without giving too much away what follows to my mind in any case, is a brilliant updating of the infamous scene between "the old lady" and the Misfit, the "unconversion" tale if you will, at the heart of "A Good Man."

    Archive 2008-02-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • Now without giving too much away what follows to my mind in any case, is a brilliant updating of the infamous scene between "the old lady" and the Misfit, the "unconversion" tale if you will, at the heart of "A Good Man."

    The Quick Review: Alice Munro Lemon Hound 2008

  • And this leads Rutherford on, in the last place, to say what Earlston, and Cardoness, and Lord Boyd, while yet in their unconversion and their early conversion, would not understand.

    Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

  • And this leads Rutherford on, in the last place, to say what Earlston, and Cardoness, and Lord Boyd, while yet in their unconversion and their early conversion, would not understand.

    Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Alexander Whyte 1878

  • I am not, saith he, as other men; that is, in unconversion, in a state of sin, wrath, and death.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

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