Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to expiate or atone for.
- adjective Obsolete Implacable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not to be expiated; admitting of no expiation or atonement: as, an inexpiable crime or offense.
- Not to be satisfied or appeased by expiation; implacable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Admitting of no expiation, atonement, or satisfaction.
- adjective Archaic Incapable of being mollified or appeased; relentless; implacable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective both
unforgivable andinexplicable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of being atoned for
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Examples
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For he now lived inside the words of Omar, the ghost's plaintive smile staved his soul of its inexpiable guilt.
The Sanchez Ghost 2009
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For he now lived inside the words of Omar, the ghost's plaintive smile staved his soul of its inexpiable guilt.
The Sanchez Ghost 2009
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Now, it required no conjurer to foresee, that should Francis commit this inexpiable crime of secretly allying himself with a
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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And to impress upon me that I had done nothing inexpiable.
John Gabriel Borkman 2008
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And to impress upon me that I had done nothing inexpiable.
John Gabriel Borkman 2008
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A new Ahasuerus, cursed by inexpiable crime, yet sustained by a great purpose.
Green Mansions 2004
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The desperate squeakings about the old house on windy nights that to Anthony were burglars with revolvers ready in hand represented to Gloria the auras, evil and restive, of dead generations, expiating the inexpiable upon the ancient and romantic hearth.
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I had the power, if I could raise myself to will it, and yet again had not the power, for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt.
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They confess that the cause why they persecuted their brother was his having dreamed; as if truly this ass an inexpiable offense; but if they are indignant at his dreams, why do they not rather wage war with God?
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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And first, he reproves their ingratitude, because, when they had been so kindly received, they made the worst possible return; next, he contends that the crime was inexpiable, because they had stolen what was most valuable to him; namely, the cup in which he was accustomed both to drink and to divine.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
qroqqa commented on the word inexpiable
'If I had broke the cup, madam,' Mr. Sumelin answered, 'it would have been a crime inexpiable but by a new set. This is, I suppose, a regular tax upon husbands; I submit to it; but I really cannot submit to the not being allowed to scald my own fingers.'
—Robert Bage, 1796, Hermsprong
March 21, 2009