Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of refusing or delaying to remit or pardon; the act of withholding remission or pardon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Refusal of pardon.
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- noun
Refusal ofpardon .
Etymologies
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ir- + remission
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Examples
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‘unease’ (Hacket); ‘repentance’, but not ‘unrepentance’; ‘remission’, but not ‘irremission’ (Donne); ‘science’, but not ‘nescience’
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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