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CIDE DICTIONARY
impenitence, n. [L. impenitentia: cf. F. impénitence.].
The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart. [1913 Webster]
"He will advance from one degree of wickedness and impenitence to another." [1913 Webster]
DEVIL DICTIONARY
impenitence
n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.ROGET THESAURUS
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Impenitence
N impenitence, irrepentance, recusance, lack of contrition, hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy, impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate, hard, hardened, seared, recusant, unrepentant, relentless, remorseless, graceless, shriftless, lost, incorrigible, irreclaimable, unreconstructed, unregenerate, unreformed, unrepented, unreclaimed, unatoned.Also see definition of "impenitence" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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