#951. Impenitence. -- N. impenitence, irrepentance[obs], recusance[obs]; lack of contrition.
hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy.
V. be impenitent &c. adj.; steel the heart, harden the heart; die game, die and make no sign, die unshriven, die without benefit of clergy.
Adj. impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate; hard, hardened; seared, recusant; unrepentant; relentless, remorseless, graceless, shriftless[obs].
lost, incorrigible, irreclaimable.
unreconstructed, unregenerate, unreformed; unrepented[obs], unreclaimed[obs], unatoned.