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单词 impenitent
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Definition of impenitent in English:

impenitent

adjective ɪmˈpɛnɪt(ə)ntɪmˈpɛnətnt
  • Not feeling shame or regret about one's actions or attitudes.

    无羞耻感的,不悔悟的

    impenitent elitists
    Example sentencesExamples
    • To think and speak of that day with horror doth well become the impenitent sinner, but ill the believing saint.
    • The Lords and Commons repent, but the clergy remain impenitent, are exposed, and the malefactors brought to the scaffold.
    • Will you die in your sins and go to hell like the impenitent robber?
    • Michelle, her actor daughter, is impenitent in unloading the truth about her high society mother who denies her Quebecois roots.
    • In the end it is the feeling of incongruity that persists, something obstinate and impenitent and a sense that nobody quite knows what to do about it.
    • But six years later he was arrested again, this time under charges of impenitent heresy, and was burnt at the stake in 1596, at the age of thirty.
    • He is also assured, brilliant, and impenitent, often justifying appalling military actions.
    • It is not to pretend the impenitent person is penitent.
    • The impenitent and unbelieving will be ‘outside’ for ever.
    • But there is no folly like that of the impenitent child of the world.
    • But apparently the real purpose of the Mass is to provide a setting in which we feel comfortable with our impenitent persistence in grave sin.
    • ‘Everything is blessing to the elect,’ he stated, ‘but nothing is blessing to the impenitent unbeliever outside Christ.’
    • It is he who, now discovered, remains impenitent.
    • Once condemned and in prison awaiting execution, Peter received visits from local ministers eager to prevent him from meeting death impenitent.
    • If he does not confess he is at a loss, then he is an impenitent who will not admit his sins.
    Synonyms
    unrepentant, unrepenting, without regret/remorse, uncontrite, remorseless, unremorseful, shameless, unashamed, unblushing, unapologetic, unabashed, brazen, conscienceless

Derivatives

  • impenitence

  • noun ɪmˈpɛnɪt(ə)ns
    • His point is that Christians need to resist these urges, since acting them out cannot please God and will reveal lethal impenitence.
  • impenitency

  • noun
  • impenitently

  • adverb ɪmˈpɛnɪt(ə)ntli
    • What it wears on its star-crossed sleeves may be more nerve than heart, but it is heartily droll: a piece of impenitently delinquent sophomoric sardonicism I would characterize as juvenile astringency.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • An enemy is somebody who, impenitently and with malice aforethought, means ill and chooses to do you harm for the sake of his own selfish purposes.
      • Historical shame and resentment is here straightforwardly acknowledged, impenitently.
      • They both sat down, drinking the wine, with Maxine impenitently waiting for the show to begin.

Origin

Late Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin impaenitent- 'not repenting', from Latin in- 'not' + paenitere 'repent'.

Rhymes

penitent

Definition of impenitent in US English:

impenitent

adjectiveimˈpenətntɪmˈpɛnətnt
  • Not feeling shame or regret about one's actions or attitudes.

    无羞耻感的,不悔悟的

    impenitent elitists
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The impenitent and unbelieving will be ‘outside’ for ever.
    • It is he who, now discovered, remains impenitent.
    • Michelle, her actor daughter, is impenitent in unloading the truth about her high society mother who denies her Quebecois roots.
    • If he does not confess he is at a loss, then he is an impenitent who will not admit his sins.
    • Once condemned and in prison awaiting execution, Peter received visits from local ministers eager to prevent him from meeting death impenitent.
    • In the end it is the feeling of incongruity that persists, something obstinate and impenitent and a sense that nobody quite knows what to do about it.
    • Will you die in your sins and go to hell like the impenitent robber?
    • But there is no folly like that of the impenitent child of the world.
    • But apparently the real purpose of the Mass is to provide a setting in which we feel comfortable with our impenitent persistence in grave sin.
    • He is also assured, brilliant, and impenitent, often justifying appalling military actions.
    • The Lords and Commons repent, but the clergy remain impenitent, are exposed, and the malefactors brought to the scaffold.
    • To think and speak of that day with horror doth well become the impenitent sinner, but ill the believing saint.
    • But six years later he was arrested again, this time under charges of impenitent heresy, and was burnt at the stake in 1596, at the age of thirty.
    • It is not to pretend the impenitent person is penitent.
    • ‘Everything is blessing to the elect,’ he stated, ‘but nothing is blessing to the impenitent unbeliever outside Christ.’
    Synonyms
    unrepentant, unrepenting, without regret, without remorse, uncontrite, remorseless, unremorseful, shameless, unashamed, unblushing, unapologetic, unabashed, brazen, conscienceless

Origin

Late Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin impaenitent- ‘not repenting’, from Latin in- ‘not’ + paenitere ‘repent’.

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