Crossword-Solution: IMPENITENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Impenitent | a. | Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart. |
| Impenitent | n. | One who is not penitent. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “IMPENITENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Not contrite. | 1 answer |
| Statement in a confessional? | 1 answer |
| Without remorse | 1 answer |
| impervious to moral persuasion | 1 answer |
| unshriven | 1 answer |
| Unashamed | 4 answers |
| unreformed | 4 answers |
| Conscienceless | 13 answers |
| unrepentant | 13 answers |
| unblushing | 17 answers |
| hardened | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with IMPENITENT (5)
Before he could reprove this impenitent child for audacity she had raised herself that she might approach her lips more closely to his ear.
When I got home, still impenitent and eternally lost and secretly very lonely and miserable and alarmed, Uncle Nicodemus docked my Sunday pudding.
The impenitent sinners, more cruel than Phalaris or Sennacherib, more destructive than war, pestilence, or a cloud of locusts, are deprived of the name and privileges of Christians, of the participation of the sacraments, and of the hope of Paradise.
Many rolls of paper or parchment have been blotted; and the impenitent sectaries, who refused to subscribe the orthodox creed, were deprived of the honors of Christian burial; but in the next age the question was forgotten; nor can I learn that the axe or the fagot were employed for the extirpation of the Barlaamite heresy.
She didn’t know what impenitent wretches had been breathing within these walls in the time of that godless and wicked man who had planted every seed of perdition in “our Rita’s” ill-disposed heart.
Quotes with IMPENITENT (3)
We are apathetic and indifferent towards our sins, and we are usually not disturbed by them at all. We are more likely to weep over what is done to us, or over difficult leadings. We weep over our sorrows, troubles and disappointments. Each one of us does so, for this is our human nature. But not everyone comes to the point of true contrition and repentance and weeps over his sins. Such reactions are foreign to human nature. The human heart has a way of thinking that it is al…
The human heart has a way of thinking that it is always in the right and has no need to weep over its sins. By nature, we are self-confident and impenitent. We blame others or even accuse God when we do not understand His ways.
The views of the Courts in regard to imprisonment have however undergone modification in the last ten years. Imprisonment is seen more and more as a harsh and drastic punishment to be reserved for callous and impenitent characters. We wish to adopt a more enlightened approach in which the probable effect of incarceration upon the life of the accused person and those near to her is carefully weighed.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1948–2021).