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unforˈgiven, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. (in sense 2) OE. unforᵹifen, MDu. onvergeven.]
†1. Sc. Without any remission. Obs.
1425Sc. Acts Jas. I (1814) II. 12/1 Ande quha sa..be fundyn fautyfe sal pay ane vnlaw..vnforgevin. 1442Extr. Aberdeen Rec. (1844) I. 7 The said Master Jhon sal pay to kyrk werk xl s. vnforgiffin. 1510Ibid. 81 Ane amerciament of viii s. vnforgiven. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 242 Nane sould eit flesche on frydayes..vnder the paine of xx poundis on forgivin for the first fault. 1622Extr. Aberdeen Rec. (1848) II. 378 The counsallour..sall pay for ilk dayis absence..twelff schillingis, money vnforgiwen.
2. Not forgiven. Also absol.
1565Harding Confut. Apol. Ch. Eng. v. vii. 251 b, That temporall satisfaction, which after the sacrament of penaunce is left vnforgeuen. 1737Chesterfield Epitaph Q. Charlotte 18 To her own offspring mercy she denied, And unforgiving, unforgiven died. 1796F. Burney Camilla V. 409 To present herself..undemanded and unforgiven at Etherington, she thought impossible. 1819Shelley Cenci iv. i. 89 As she shall die unshrived and unforgiven. 1845Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 226 And thou wilt then be wretcheder than I;—The unforgiving than the unforgiven. |