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inexpiable, a.|ɪnˈɛkspɪəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. inexpiābilis inexpiable, implacable, f. in- (in-3) + expiābilis expiable. Cf. F. inexpiable (15–16th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
1. Of an offence: That cannot be expiated or atoned for; of which the guilt cannot be done away.
1570Levins Manip. 4/26 Inexpiable, inexpiabilis. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxix. i. 352 This was in him a fault inexpiable. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. iii. (1701) 93/2 Such as have used inexpiable deceit to wrong the publick. 1728Young Love Fame vi, Her lover must be sad to please her spleen; His mirth is an inexpiable sin. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. ii. (1864) V. 54 One of the inexpiable offences of the Latin church.
2. Of a feeling, etc.: That cannot be appeased by expiation; implacable, irreconcilable. (Also transf. of an action.)
1598Florio, Inespiabile, inexpiable,..vnmercifull, deadlie, marble-minded. 1600Holland Livy xxxiii. xlvii. 851 They continued an endlesse and inexpiable warre with him alone still. 1671Milton Samson 839 To raise in me inexpiable hate. 1792Burke Corr. (1844) III. 404 Against the nobility and gentry they have waged inexpiable war. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 44 The revolt of the outraged Libyan mercenaries..which is known in history by the name of the ‘War without Truce’ or the ‘Inexpiable war’.
Hence inˈexpiableness, the quality of being inexpiable; inˈexpiably adv., in an inexpiable manner or degree, unpardonably.
1650R. Hollingworth Exerc. Usurp. Powers 36 The inexpiablenesse of his former facts. 1684Earl of Roscommon Ess. transl. Verse Poems (1780) 48 Excursions are inexpiably bad, And 'tis much safer to leave out than add. 1816Southey Ess. (1832) I. 357 This struggle so inexpiably and ineffaceably disgraceful for France. 1884Chr. World 17 July 543/3 They were inexpiably wronged in the past. |