impenitent

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  1. adjective Not penitent; unrepentant.

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  • If they were impenitent, he was willing to trust to time to effect a change of heart. —  Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II
  • Another characteristic of the average preacher sixty years ago was that sermons were generally aimed at awakening the impenitent, and bringing them to Jesus Christ. —  Recollections of a Long Life
  • Of course, belief in hell as the just punishment of the impenitent is part and parcel of historic biblical Christianity. —  AlbertMohler.com – Blog
  • Then man is impenitent, then obstinate, then he is damned.--JEREMY TAYLOR Rogues differ little. —  Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
  • As to the positive punishment into which the impenitent will be cast, while I simply receive all the words of the Lord, I shall take care not to obtrude many of my own. —  The Parables of Our Lord
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  1. = French impénitent = Spanish Portuguese Italian impenitente, from Late Latin impæniten(t-)s, inpæniten(t-)s, not penitent, from Latin in- privative + pæniten(t-)s, penitent: see penitent.
 

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/ɪmˈpɛnɪtənt/
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