impenitent

impenitent

1. Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart.
   • (Can we date this quote by Bishop Hall?)

     A careless and impenitent heart.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16

     “Captain Peleg,” said Bildad steadily, “thy conscience may be drawing ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I can’t tell; but as thou art still an impenitent man, Captain Peleg, I greatly fear lest thy conscience be but a leaky one; and will in the end sink thee foundering down to the fiery pit, Captain Peleg.”

impenitent (plural impenitents)

1. One who is not penitent.

• impenitent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• impenitent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• pentimenti