Meanings
nounirremission (uncountable)
- archaicuncountableRefusal of pardon.
for in all those three Euangelists, where this fearfull denunciation is interminated, still it is in a phrase, of somewhat more mildnesse, then so; It is, It shall not be forgiven, It is not, it cannot be forgiven: It is an irremission, it is not an irremissiblenesse.
a. 1631 (date written), John Donne, “(please specify the chapter or sermon)”, in LXXX Sermons Preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine Iohn Donne […], London: Richard Royston, […], and Richard Marriot […], published 1640, →OCLC
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