impenitency
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 926209975, 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, […]
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for impenitency in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
References
- “impenitency”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.