Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete, obsolete Not capable of being brought into harmony; irreconcilable.
- adjective Incapable of being atoned for; inexpiable.
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- adjective Incapable of being
atoned for;inexpiable . - adjective obsolete Not capable of being brought into
harmony ;irreconcilable .
Etymologies
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un- + atonable
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Examples
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Even if one lays aside that suspicion, and in many cases it is quite unjust, the clergy must realise that the indictment of Christianity is grave, and is almost unatonable.
The War and the Churches Joseph McCabe 1911
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Tears of remorse for an unatonable crime gathered in his eyes.
Lost 1898 Edward Bellamy 1874
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-- I have committed the one unatonable and unpardonable sin.
The Black Robe Wilkie Collins 1856
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Anyone who titles a novel Castle must reckon with the ghost of Franz Kafka, and Lennon's is a universe fraught with inscrutable, unatonable guilt.
Critical Mass 2009
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