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impenitent
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impenitent \Im*pen"i*tent\, a. [L. impaenitens; pref. im- not +
paenitens penitens: cf. F. imp['e]nitent. See Penitent.]
Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard
heart. ``They . . . died impenitent.''
--Milton. ``A careless
and impenitent heart.''
--Bp. Hall.
Impenitent \Im*pen"i*tent\, n. One who is not penitent. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart. n. One who is not penitent.
WordNet
adj. not penitent or remorseful [syn: unrepentant, unremorseful] [ant: penitent, penitent]
impervious to moral persuasion
Usage examples of "impenitent".
Left without excuse, this poor impenitent Burman, like thousands in America, almost, but not altogether persuaded to be Christians, postponed what he could not but purpose to a more convenient season.
We the said Bishop and Judges on behalf of the Faith, sitting in tribunal as Judges judging, and having before us the Holy Gospels that our judgement may proceed as from the countenance of god and our eyes see with equity, and having before our eyes only God and the truth of the Holy Faith and the extirpation of the plague of heresy, on this day and at this hour and place assigned to you for the hearing of your final sentence, we give it as our judgement and sentence that you are indeed an impenitent heretic, and as truly such to be delivered and abandoned to the secular Court: wherefore by this sentence we cast you away as an impenitent heretic from our ecclesiastical Court, and deliver or abandon you to the power of the secular Court: praying the said Court to moderate or temper its sentence of death against you.
We the Bishop and Judges named on behalf of the faith, sitting in tribunal as Judges judging, and having before us the Holy Gospels that our judgement may proceed as from the countenance of God and our eyes see with equity, and having before our eyes only God and the glory and honour of the Holy Faith, we judge, declare and pronounce sentence that you standing here in our presence on this day at the hour and place appointed for the hearing of your final sentence, are an impenitent heretic, and as such to be delivered or abandoned to secular justice.
We the said Bishop and Judges on behalf of the Faith, sitting in tribunal as Judges judging, and having before us the Holy Gospels that our judgement may proceed as from the countenance of god and our eyes see with equity, and having before our eyes only God and the truth of the Holy Faith and the extirpation of the plague of heresy, on this day and at this hour and place assigned to you for the hearing of your final sentence, we give it as our judgement and sentence that you are indeed an impenitent heretic, and as truly such to be delivered and abandoned to the secular Court: wherefore by this sentence we cast you away as an impenitent heretic from our ecclesiastical Court, and deliver or abandon you to the power of the secular Court: praying the said Court .
And the Bishop and his officers shall give notice to the Bailiff or authority of the secular Court that on such a day at such an hour and in such a place (not inside a church) he should come with his attendants to receive an impenitent heretic whom they will deliver to him.
And if after they have obstinately endured that excommunication for a year they wish to repent, let them abjure that obstruction and patronage, and if not, they must be handed over as impenitents to the secular Court.
Along with heretics, pagans, atheists, impenitents and idolaters, all such folk are destined for the lowest pits of Hell!
And then blood everywhere, as if some impenitents had been devoured by a school of sharks.