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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not penitent; unrepentant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; obdurate.
  • noun One who does not repent; a hardened sinner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart.
  • noun rare One who is not penitent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart.
  • noun One who is not penitent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective impervious to moral persuasion
  • adjective not penitent or remorseful

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