impenitency
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English
Etymology
From impenitent.[1]
Noun
impenitency (usually uncountable, plural impenitencies)
- Archaic form of impenitence.
- 1673, John Milton, Of True Religion, Heresie, Schism, Toleration, and What Best Means may be Us’d against the Growth of Popery. ; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, , volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 812:
- Let us therfore, […] amend our Lives vvith all ſpeed; leſt through impenitency vve run into that Stupidity, vvhich vve novv ſeek all means ſo vvarily to avoid, […]
References
- ^ “impenitency”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Further reading
- “impenitency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.