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English
Etymology
From in- + expiable.
Adjective
inexpiable (comparative more inexpiable, superlative most inexpiable)
- That cannot be expiated or atoned for; unforgivable.
1863, J Sheridan Le Fanu, “How an Evening Passes at the Elms, and Dr. Toole Makes a Little Excursion; and Two Choice Spirits Discourse, and Hebe Trips In with the Nectar”, in The House by the Church-yard. , volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, , →OCLC, page 277:[…] the only son of that disgraced and blood-stained nobleman, who, lying in gaol, under sentence of death for a foul and cowardly murder, swallowed poison, and so closed his guilty life with a tremendous crime, in its nature inexpiable.
French
Adjective
inexpiable (plural inexpiables)
- inexpiable
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Spanish
Adjective
inexpiable m or f (masculine and feminine plural inexpiables)
- unforgivable
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