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unforˈgiv(e)able, a.
(un-1 7 b.)
Sometimes spec. with sin, in allusion to Matt. xii. 31.
1548R. Hutten Sum of Diuinitie H 3 b, Euerye persecution of the Gospell is not to be iudged synne unforgyueable. 1550Latimer Last Serm. bef. Edw. VI, Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 250 This sin it was that he thought to be unforgiveable. 1832Southey Hist. Penins. War III. 195 Bad as his conduct was, it would be his own fault if he made it unforgiveable. 1851Carlyle Sterling i. vii, This is what it would have been the unforgivable sin to swerve from and desert. 1885Manch. Exam. 17 June 4/7 The circumstances..ought to stamp it as an unforgivable offence.
Hence unforˈgiv(e)ably adv.
1890Pall Mall G. 15 May 2/3 All these books sin unforgiveably against the scientific sense. 1897‘Mrs. Rayner’ Type-writer Girl xxi. 243, I have never acted..grossly and unforgivably wrong. |