ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. xiv. Wicked woman,… whose unrepenting harte can find no way to amend treason, but by treason.
1655. Jer. Taylor, Unum Necess., V. § 3. 245. Unrepenting or habitual sinners.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 156. It goes on in one Constant, Unrepenting Tenor, from Generation to Generation.
1700. Dryden, Theod. & Hon., 168. In unrepenting Sin she dy’d.
1730. A. Petrie, Rules Good Deportm. Ch. Officers, 127. To their last Hour of unrepenting Death.
1790. Gibbon, Misc. Wks. (1814), III. 396. The unrepenting tyrant had accomplished the measure of his sins.
1827. Pollok, Course T., VI. 496. The sword of Justice, red With … unrepenting wrath.
1839. Hallam, Hist. Lit., III. ii. § 25. A Jesuit wrote a book to prove that unrepenting Protestants could not be saved.
Hence Unrepentingly adv., -ness.
1615. Hieron, Wks., I. 606. Such is the stablenesse of His counsell,… the vnrepentingnesse of His conferring sauing grace.
1789. Charlotte Smith, Ethelinde (1814), V. 333. Though he now unrepentingly was gone where all his crimes were registered.
