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unreˈpentant, a.
(un-1 7, 5 b.)
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 108 Þurghe his wyckede and unrepentant herte. 1395Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 119 The curat shulde remove hem fro Goddis boord, if he parceyuith hem vnrepentaunt. c1440Jacob's Well 9 In þis cursyng, who-so deye vnrepentaunt, schal haue a dredeful ende! 1548Cranmer Catech. 222 b, Unrepentaunte synners and vnbelevers. 1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 45 The soule of the vnrepentant papist. 1631High Commission Cases (Camden) 213 The body of the unrepentant sinner. 1671Milton P.R. iii. 429 Should I of these the liberty regard, Who,..unrepentant, unreform'd, Headlong would follow. 1813Scott Rokeby iii. xiv, Among the feasters waited near Sorrow, and unrepentant Fear. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. 358 The two offenders were hopelessly unrepentant. 1869Mozley Univ. Serm. ii. (1877) 34 False goodness is..an unrepentant type of evil.
absol.1581A. Golding Test. 12 Patriarchs 59 The Lorde, who either taketh away his benefites from the wicked,..or els reserueth them in the vnrepentant, to their endlesse punishment. 1617J. Barbier Janua Ling. 4 The sinnes of the vnrepentant.
Hence unreˈpentantly adv., -ness.
c1440Promp. Parv. 366/2 *On-repentawntly, inpenitenter. 1647Trapp Comm. Matt. xxvi. 75 Stephen Gardiner..both stinkingly and unrepentantly died. 1869Lyndesay's Wks. 440 marg., Princes that, unrepentantly, live amiss.
1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 126 b, The *vnrepentauntnesse and lasciuiousnes of them. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxix. 29 This is the last curse..that foloweth the unrepentantnesse, of which he spake. |