unpardonable
/ʌnˈpɑːd(ə)nəb(ə)l
/adjective
(Of a fault or offence) too severe to be pardoned; unforgivable: an unpardonable sin...
- I remember when I first arrived here, seeing two drivers - whose automobiles had just collided - bowing deeply to each other at the roadside over the unpardonable offence each had just committed against the other.
- The crunch came in 1956 when, having committed the almost unpardonable offence of supporting a Labour private member's Bill to abolish hanging, he then abstained in the vote of confidence in the government over Suez.
- Her unpardonable fault being that alas… She was born as a She.
Derivatives
unpardonableness
- God's Word implies the same unpardonableness for such offense in Isaiah 8: 9-20, and Revelation 14: 9, 10.
- Asking for forgiveness and admitting your mistakes is a powerful weapon against unpardonableness.
- The incident that led to Jesus’ statement concerning the unpardonableness of such sin demonstrates that it refers to opposing the operation of God's spirit.
unpardonably
/ adverb ...- With the exception of the unpardonably boring Navarone, these are movies I loved when I was nine and will probably still love if I ever hit 90.
- In fact, Mark Twain once said, ‘There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker… Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kindhearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a ‘flush’.
- Geremi and the shrewd Crespo linked fluently on the right after 31 minutes, but Eidur Gudjohnsen was hasty and his shot over the bar from the Argentinian's pass was unpardonably wild.