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impenitent

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Adjective

HYPHEN

im=pen=i=tent

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective impenitent has 2 senses

impenitent(a = adj.all) unremorseful, unrepentant - not penitent or remorseful; Array

Derived forms noun impenitence₁, noun impenitency₁

Antonym: penitent

impenitent(s = adj.all) Array - impervious to moral persuasion; Array

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CIDE DICTIONARY

impenitent, a. [L. impaenitens; pref. im- not + paenitens penitens: cf. F. impénitent. See Penitent.].

Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart. [1913 Webster]

impenitent, n.

One who is not penitent. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

impenitent, adj. not repentant or penitent.

Derivative

impenitence n. impenitency n. impenitently adv.

Etymology

eccl.L impaenitens (as IN-(1), PENITENT)

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ROGET THESAURUS

impenitent

Impenitence

N impenitence, irrepentance, recusance, lack of contrition, hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy, impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate, hard, hardened, seared, recusant, unrepentant, relentless, remorseless, graceless, shriftless, lost, incorrigible, irreclaimable, unreconstructed, unregenerate, unreformed, unrepented, unreclaimed, unatoned.

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