Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unrepentant or impenitent; impenitence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Impenitence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Lack of
repentance ; failure torepent .
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Examples
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The core of the Republican ideology has long since strayed from its stated desires to find leaner, better ways to govern a free people and has evolved into a diamond-hard doctrine of perpetual unrepentance.
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But I do; I love the harsh matter of factness; I love Jack's love of drink and drugs and his total unrepentance.
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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But I do; I love the harsh matter of factness; I love Jack's love of drink and drugs and his total unrepentance.
The Magdalen Martyrs 2006
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Helpless in the face of such blank unrepentance, I obeyed, and presently I heard the clerk's voice intoning, Nurse Ratcliff!
Try Anything Twice 1938
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"No, I know I don't," beamed Bertram, with cheerful unrepentance; "but I am, just the same," he finished triumphantly.
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Sheriff and watcher, had failed to do: he had shaken Grassette out of his blank isolation and obdurate unrepentance, had touched some chord of recognisable humanity.
Northern Lights, Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897
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Sheriff, and watcher, had failed to do: he had shaken Grassette out of his blank isolation and obdurate unrepentance, had touched some chord of recognizable humanity.
Northern Lights Gilbert Parker 1897
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Sheriff and watcher, had failed to do: he had shaken Grassette out of his blank isolation and obdurate unrepentance, had touched some chord of recognisable humanity.
Northern Lights, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Sheriff and watcher, had failed to do: he had shaken Grassette out of his blank isolation and obdurate unrepentance, had touched some chord of recognisable humanity.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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"No, I know I don't," beamed Bertram, with cheerful unrepentance; "but I am, just the same," he finished triumphantly.
Miss Billy — Married 1894
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