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unforgivingness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being unforgiving; implacability.

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  • noun The quality of being unforgiving.

Etymologies

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unforgiving +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • The first 2 Terminator films were rated R for, not so much in blood and gore, but in the sense of unrelenting dread and unforgivingness.

    Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins Announced as PG-13 « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Judt believes you simply cannot discount the general situation in France, the hatred of right versus left, the hatred of Jews, the viciousness of the nationalists -- who had not forgotten the Paris Commune of 1871 -- the unforgivingness of the left, the incompetence of the generals.

    The Momentary and the More Permanent 2008

  • And if you should be taken from us, what grief and what punishment are not treasuring up against themselves in the heavy reflections which their rash censures and unforgivingness will occasion them!

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • But now they are sufficiently cleared from every imputation of unforgivingness; for, while I appeared to them in the character of a vile hypocrite, pretending to true penitence, yet giving up myself to profligate courses, how could I expect either their pardon or blessing?

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Evil thoughts, hardness of heart, suspicions, unforgivingness, hatred, being too impalpable for denunciation in the Decalogue but lying nearer to the hearts of most men than murder, theft, adultery, and perjury, were not equally abhorrent to her.

    John Caldigate 2004

  • Her aunt had left out all that mattered — all the feeling, the hate, the love, the unforgivingness of passionate hearts.

    To Let 2004

  • It would appear to me that in these days was sown the seeds of those differences of opinion between those close friends of many years 'standing which were later to develop into a feeling of personal hostility which, on the part of one of them (Mr Dillon) at least, was black and bitter in its unforgivingness.

    Ireland Since Parnell 1910

  • Her aunt had left out all that mattered -- all the feeling, the hate, the love, the unforgivingness of passionate hearts.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Her aunt had left out all that mattered -- all the feeling, the hate, the love, the unforgivingness of passionate hearts.

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900

  • Her aunt had left out all that mattered -- all the feeling, the hate, the love, the unforgivingness of passionate hearts.

    The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

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