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unreˈpenting, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. xiv, Wicked woman,..whose unrepenting harte can find no way to amend treason, but by treason. 1655Jer. Taylor Unum Necess. v. §3. 245 Unrepenting or habitual sinners. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 156 It goes on in one Constant, Unrepenting Tenor, from Generation to Generation. 1700Dryden Theod. & Hon. 168 In unrepenting Sin she dy'd. 1730A. Petrie Rules Good Deportm. Ch. Officers 127 To their last Hour of unrepenting Death. 1790Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) III. 396 The unrepenting tyrant had accomplished the measure of his sins. 1827Pollok Course T. vi. 496 The sword of Justice, red With..unrepenting wrath. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. iii. ii. §25 A Jesuit wrote a book to prove that unrepenting Protestants could not be saved.
Hence unreˈpentingly adv., -ness.
1615Hieron Wks. I. 606 Such is the stablenesse of His counsell,..the vnrepentingnesse of His conferring sauing grace. 1789C. Smith Ethelinde (1814) V. 333 Though he now unrepentingly was gone where all his crimes were registered. |