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unpardoning en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + pardoning.

Meanings

1. That does not pardon; unforgiving.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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