impenitencen.
/ɪmˈpɛnɪtəns/ The fact or condition of being impenitent; want of penitence or repentance; hardness of heart; obduracy.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penitence > impenitence > [noun]
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1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. vii. 112 Impenitence of any deadly crime.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 816 Denouncing wrauth to come On thir impenitence . View more context for this quotation
a1694 J. Tillotson Serm. II. cxix. (R.) Nor is one man's impenitence more blameable than another's; Chorazin and Bethsaida can be in no more fault for continuing impenitent, than Tyre and Sidon were.
1884 E. H. Plumptre tr. Dorner in Spirits in Prison & Other Stud. viii. 255 There is no predestination to damnation, only continued impenitence can be the cause of that.
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