unrepentedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈpɛntᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈpɛn(t)əd/ Esp. of a sin, crime, etc.: not repented or regretted; for which no repentance has been shown.
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society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [adjective] > transgressing or offending > of the nature of a fault or offence > not repented (of)
unrepented1577
unrepented-of1584
a1500 Craft of Deyng (Cambr. Kk.1.5) in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 168 The synis that he has done, wnconfessyt of or Rapentyt.]
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. ix. sig. Oo.vii/1 Then were they thoroughly recompenced for their paines by him, that is the seuere reuenger of vnrepented wickednesse [L. meritas iusto uindici pœnas persoluerunt].
1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Æneis vi. 142 in tr. Virgil Wks. Sins which at late death unrepented were [L. distulit in seram commissa piacula mortem].
1660 J. Gauden Κακουργοι 45 What peace can there be or true healing, while..the deepest wounds..are unpunished and unrepented?
1729 W. Law Serious Call xxiii. 460 The guilt of unrepented sins.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc ix. 38 Sent before the Eternal Judge, With all their unrepented crimes upon them.
1830 G. S. Faber Diffic. Romanism (ed. 2) i. v. 168 An act of unrepented idolatry.
1867 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings xii. 243 Humbling discoveries..of secret, unsuspected, unrepented sins.
1934 Classical Rev. 48 103/2 The doctrine..obtrudes itself as a piece of unrepented Platonism.
2004 G. Scarre After Evil iv. 64 One may wonder whether certain unrepented crimes are just too serious to be forgiven.
Compounds
(Cf. note at un- prefix1 2c.) C1. With prepositions, in the same sense, as †unrepented-for, †unrepented-on.
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1618 E. Parr Abba Father 8 The cry of our vnrepented-for sinnes, is louder then the crie of our voyce.
1645 E. Calamy Indictm. against Eng. 23 This sin alone unrepented on will shut a man out of heaven.
1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience xvi. 122 Some unrepented-for sinne.
C2.
unrepented-of adj. = main sense.
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1584 R. Greenham Godlie Exhort. sig. B.iv They doe lie in some sinne vnrepented of.
1629 S. Rutherford Let. 15 Jan. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 428 Fear of God's anger for old unrepented of sins.
a1716 O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. viii. 77 His known, allow'd, unrepented-of Breach of that one Law.
1824 L.-M. Hawkins Annaline III. 209 Where sin unrepented of cannot enter.
1920 N. N. Riddell Vital Christianity xiv. 292 Resistance is usually due to..unrepented of sin or an unsurrendered will.
1998 A. Munro Save the Reaper in Love of Good Woman 174 All the hopeful and serious, the more or less unrepented-of, couplings of her life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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