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unaˈtonable, a.
Also -eable.
[un-1 7 b.]
†1. Unaccordable. Obs.—1
1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1851 IV. 267 He who sees not this argument how plainly it serves to divorce any untunable, or unattonable matrimony, sees little.
2. Irreconcilable.
1683Howe Union among Prot. Wks. 1724 II. 243 If such men were capable of being reason'd with..I would ask them, ‘What, are you altogether unatoneable? Will nothing divert you from this pursuit?’ 1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry I. 213 How the waves rush, the thunders roar, and the voice of winds tells of this unatonable vengeance. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. ii. viii. §45. 312 The great unatoneable division between the disciple and the adversary.
3. That cannot be atoned for or expiated.
1689Apol. Fail. Walker's Acc. 19 The unattoneable Guilt of retarding the Conveyance of those Arms and Ammunition. 1881W. Collins Black Robe i. x, I have committed the one unatonable and unpardonable sin. |