unpardoning

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adjective

That does not pardon; unforgiving.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveunpardoning (comparative more unpardoning, superlative most unpardoning)

comparative more unpardoning · superlative most unpardoning

  1. That does not pardon; unforgiving.

    He did not reflect on the consequences of such an unpardoning spirit in its operation on his mind.

    1894, George Meredith, Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete
    2 more examples

    Certainly the despairing anguish that she had felt, the submission to his unpardoning wrath, the tacit agreement that the discovery gave him license to do anything he liked with her, not only then but throughout the future--all this pertained to a state of mind which could be coldly recollected, but which could not be warmly revived.

    1914, W. B. Maxwell, The Devil's Garden

    For the first time she had been brought face to face with sin and falsehood, and hers was the unpardoning white condemnation of an angel to whom sin is unknown and falsehood impossible.

    1920, Marie Conway Oemler, Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man

Origin

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Chicago

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