impenitent
/ɪmˈpɛnɪt(ə)nt
/adjective
Not feeling shame or regret about one’s actions or attitudes: impenitent elitists...
- But apparently the real purpose of the Mass is to provide a setting in which we feel comfortable with our impenitent persistence in grave sin.
- It is not to pretend the impenitent person is penitent.
- He is also assured, brilliant, and impenitent, often justifying appalling military actions.
Synonyms
unrepentant, unrepenting, without regret/remorse, uncontrite, remorseless, unremorseful, shameless, unashamed, unblushing, unapologetic, unabashed, brazen, conscienceless
Derivatives
impenitence
/ noun ...- His point is that Christians need to resist these urges, since acting them out cannot please God and will reveal lethal impenitence.
impenitency
impenitently
/ adverb ...- An enemy is somebody who, impenitently and with malice aforethought, means ill and chooses to do you harm for the sake of his own selfish purposes.
- What it wears on its star-crossed sleeves may be more nerve than heart, but it is heartily droll: a piece of impenitently delinquent sophomoric sardonicism I would characterize as juvenile astringency.
- Historical shame and resentment is here straightforwardly acknowledged, impenitently.
Origin
Late Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin impaenitent- 'not repenting', from Latin in- 'not' + paenitere 'repent'.
Rhymes
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