Impenitent Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭm-pĕnĭ-tənt
Devoid of remorse
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. unrepentant
  2. remorseless
  3. unremorseful
Antonyms:
  1. penitent
Confirmed, especially in error or vice
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. uncontrite
  2. obdurate

Words Related to Impenitent

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Impenitent Sentence Examples

  • The handing over of impenitent persons, and those who had relapsed, to the secular power, and their punishment, did not usually take place on the occasion of an auto-da-fe, properly so called.

  • Should the accused, after the testimony against him had been made public, continue to deny the charge, he was to be condemned as impenitent.

  • The lesser (niddah) involved exclusion from the synagogue for thirty days, and other penalties, and might be renewed if the offender remained impenitent.

  • He lived several years after his expulsion and appears to have died impenitent.

  • It was at Taunton that Disraeli fell upon O'Connell, rather ungratefully; whereupon the Liberator was roused to retort on his assailant vehemently as "a liar," and humorously as a probable descendant of the impenitent thief.

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