impenitence

Roget category 951

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.3. Moral conditions

#951. Impenitence

noun

impenitence, irrepentance^†, recusance^† — lack of contrition.
hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy.

verb

be impenitent etc. adj. — steel the heart, harden the heart — die game, die and make no sign, die unshriven, die without benefit of clergy.

adjective

impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate — hard, hardened — seared, recusant — unrepentant — relentless, remorseless, graceless, shriftless^†.
lost, incorrigible, irreclaimable.
unreconstructed, unregenerate, unreformed — unrepented^†, unreclaimed^†, unatoned.

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

Bold numbers signify related Roget categories. A dagger symbol (†) indicates archaic words and expressions no longer in common use.

debug info: 0.0019