| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers | | Section IV. Moral Affections | | 3. Moral Conditions |
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| 951. Impenitence. |
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| NOUN: | IMPENITENCE, irrepentance, recusancy, recusance; lack of contrition.
hardness of heart, heart of stone, seared conscience, induration, obduracy; deaf ears.
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| VERB: | BE IMPENITENT &c. adj.; steel the heart, harden the heart; turn away from the light; die game, die and make no sign.
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| ADJECTIVE: | IMPENITENT, uncontrite, obdurate, hard, hardened, seared, recusant, unrepentant; relentless, remorseless, graceless, shriftless.
lost, incorrigible, irreclaimable.
unreclaimed, unreformed; unrepented, unatoned.
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| QUOTATION: | The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.—Wordsworth |
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