impenitent

• “Hell exists as a place or state of punishment for the rebel angels and for man dying impenitent, that is, for man in whom sin has become so humanized that death finds him not simply in the act or habit of sin but so transformed that in the striking words of Bossuet, "he is man made sin.”

  Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920

• “He was tried as a witch on his own unsolicited confession, and was burnt together with his staff, dying 'impenitent' and renouncing all hope of a”

  The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology

• “His general conversation, however, was oftener on religious than on any other subjects, but it was so evidently from the fullness of his heart, and his vivid imagination afforded him such a wealth of illustration, that it was delightful even to an "impenitent" child.”

  The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss

• “But there were two 500lb gorillas sitting in the impenitent sun of Chamizal Memorial Park that no one dared discuss.”

  The Guardian: El Paso: the city hears the first battle cries in America's explosive immigration debate

• “Tsk. True, and as you have remained impenitent in your error, even after it has been explained to you and you have been given ample opportunity to recant, you leave us with no choice, reluctant and mournful though we are to execute it, but to relax you to the secular arm.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Arctic Seabed Methane Stores Destabilizing

• “As for me, my eyes were fixed upon the exhibition before me, and I stood mute and trembling under a sense never before so fully realized of the power, the majesty, and terror of Almighty God -- the resources of His wrath, and the untold horrors of the finally impenitent who do not tell their souls and make their peace with the Creator.”

  WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL

• “Rather, it's exactly the sort of letter one would expect from an anti-Semite of Céline's tireless and impenitent ardor, a writer who, from 1937 to 1944, spent all his flagrant literary energy and aptitude calling -- shouting -- for the death of every Jew in France (for a start).”

  The Huffington Post: Can Celine's Anti-Semitism Be Denied After Reading His Graphic Anti-Semitic Descriptions?

• “My Maeve, an impenitent, pagan Celt who is nobody's disciple, differs from many traditional old and new-age depictions of Mary Magdalen.”

  The Huffington Post: Elizabeth Cunningham: The Feast of Mary Magdalen: Celebrating Incarnation

• “TNH @194: Is it okay for me to be sorry about not being clearer, but wholly impenitent about dismissing Ben Trafford?”

  Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it

• “Is it okay for me to be sorry about not being clearer, but wholly impenitent about dismissing Ben Trafford?”

  Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it

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