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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an inexpiable manner or degree; so as to admit of no atonement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an inexpiable manner of degree; to a degree that admits of no atonement.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an inexpiable manner or degree; permitting no atonement.

Etymologies

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inexpiable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • To offend the love of such a woman was wrong, but it might be forgiven; to desert her was unmanly, but he might have returned, and wiped for ever from her eyes the tears of her desertion: but to injure and to desert, and then to turn back and wound her widowed privacy with unhallowed strains of cold-blooded mockery, was brutally, fiendishly, inexpiably mean.

    Lady Byron Vindicated Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 1870

  • To offend the love of such a woman was wrong, but it might be forgiven; to desert her was unmanly, but he might have returned, and wiped for ever from her eyes the tears of her desertion: but to injure and to desert, and then to turn back and wound her widowed privacy with unhallowed strains of cold-blooded mockery, was brutally, fiendishly, inexpiably mean.

    Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • "I know full well how inexpiably stupid or wicked my act will appear to you, but I will not prevaricate or lie.

    Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown 1790

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