a. Also -eable. [UN-1 7 b.]
† 1. Unaccordable. Obs.–1
1645. Milton, Tetrach., Wks. 1851, IV. 267. He who sees not this argument how plainly it serves to divorce any untunable, or unattonable matrimony, sees little.
2. Irreconcilable.
1683. Howe, Union among Prot., Wks. 1724, II. 243. If such men were capable of being reason’d with … I would ask them, ‘What are you altogether unatoneable? Will nothing divert you from this pursuit?’
1830. W. Taylor, Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry, I. 213. How the waves rush, the thunders roar, and the voice of winds tells of this unatonable vengeance.
1853. Ruskin, Stones Ven., II. viii. § 45. 312. The great unatoneable division between the disciple and the adversary.
3. That cannot be atoned for or expiated.
1689. Apol. Fail. Walker’s Acc., 19. The unattoneable Guilt of retarding the Conveyance of those Arms and Ammunition.
1881. W. Collins, Black Robe, I. x. I have committed the one unatonable and unpardonable sin.
