Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or state of being unpardonable.
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Examples
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It was because St. Augustine considered Christ's words to imply absolute unpardonableness that he held the sin against the Holy Ghost to be solely final impenitence.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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She had fancied that even the most infatuated husband might be counted onto resent, at least negatively, an attack on the sanctity of the hearth; and her anticipations were heightened by a sense of the unpardonableness of her act.
Expiation 1908
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She had fancied that even the most infatuated husband might be counted onto resent, at least negatively, an attack on the sanctity of the hearth; and her anticipations were heightened by a sense of the unpardonableness of her act.
The Descent of Man and Other Stories Edith Wharton 1899
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The absolute unpardonableness of her conduct occurred to her; with a smile she dismissed the consideration.
Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House Anthony Hope 1898
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One thing is clear: Its unpardonableness cannot arise from anything in the nature of sin itself; for that would be a naked contradiction to the emphatic declaration of Mt 12: 31, that all manner of sin is pardonable.
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But the special unpardonableness of those sins, the one of which I have spoken and that which we are now considering, lies in their shutting out God from his genial, his especially spiritual, influences upon the man.
Unspoken Sermons Series One 1824-1905 1867
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But the special unpardonableness of those sins, the one of which I have spoken and that which we are now considering, lies in their shutting out God from his _genial_, his especially spiritual, influences upon the man.
Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864
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And perhaps, when he was convicted of lying to the Holy Ghost, he remembered the unpardonableness of the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, which struck him like a dagger to the heart.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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