ppl. a. (UN-1 8, 5 c.)

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[a. 1500.  in Ratis Raving, etc., 3. The synis that he has done, wnconfessyt of or rapentyt.]

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1649.  Ogilby, trans. Virgil’s Æneis, VI. (1684), 255. Crimes at their last Hour unrepented were.

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1659.  Gauden, Slight Healers (1660), 45. What peace can there be or true healing, while … the deepest wounds … are unpunished and unrepented?

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1729.  Law, Serious C., xxiii. 460. The guilt of unrepented sins.

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1795.  Southey, Joan of Arc, IX. 38. Sent before the Eternal Judge, With all their unrepented crimes upon them.

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1806.  [see UNRELINQUISHED].

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1830.  G. S. Faber, Diffic. Romanism (ed. 2), I. v. 168. An act of unrepented idolatry.

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1867.  H. Macmillan, Bible Teach., xii. 243. Humbling discoveries … of secret, unsuspected, unrepented sins.

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  b.  With of († on, † for).

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1597.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. lxxii. § 13. Heapes of grieuous transgressions … vnrepented of.

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1629.  Rutherford, Lett. to Lady Kenmure, 15 Jan. Fear of God’s anger for old, unrepented-of sins.

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1645.  E. Calamy, Indictm. Eng., 23. This sin alone unrepented on will shut a man out of heaven.

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1646.  Fuller, Wounded Consc., xvi. (1647), 122. Some unrepented-for sinne.

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a. 1716.  Blackall, Wks. (1723), I. 77. His known, allow’d, unrepented-of Breach of that one Law.

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1824.  Miss L. M. Hawkins, Annaline, III. 209. Where sin unrepented of cannot enter.

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1839.  M. Houston, Sylvanus Redivivus, 164. The burden of unrepented-of sins.

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