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Impenitence

Definition: Impenitence

Impenitence

Noun

1. The trait of refusing to repent.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "impenitence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Impenitence

DomainDefinitions

Satire

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Impenitence

Synonym: impenitency (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Impenitence

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Impenitence

Noun: impenitence, irrepentance, recusance; lack of contrition.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Impenitence

English words defined with "impenitence": IrrepentanceUnconversion, Unrepentance. (references)

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Modern Translations: Impenitence

Language Translations for "impenitence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mospendesë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неразкаяност, липса на разкаяние. (various references)

   

Czech

  

zatvrzelost (obduracy, obstinacy). (various references)

   

French

  

impénitence. (various references)

   

German

  

Unbußfertigkeit. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αμετανοησία. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megátalkodottság (cussedness, obstinacy). (various references)

   

Manx

  

meearrys (lack of contrition). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

impenitenceay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

incompreensível (incomprehensible, insect, unaccountable, weird). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

нераскаянность. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

okorelost (obduracy), nepokajanje. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

impenitencia. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

obotfärdighet, förhärdelse (callosity, obduracy). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

pişman olmama (impenitency). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

нерозкаяність. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự không hối cãi (impenitency, impenitentness), sự không ăn năn hối hận (impenitency, impenitentness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Impenitence

Derivations

Words beginning with "impenitence": impenitences. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Impenitence"

Words rhyming with "impenitence" (pronounced 'Im*pen"i*tence'): Appetence, Armipotence, Centripetence, Ignipotence, intermittence, Latence, Penitence, Potence. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Impenitence

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-i-m-n-n-p-t"

-2 letters: penitence, timepiece.

-3 letters: eminence, enceinte, tenpence.

-4 letters: centime, emetine, eminent, epicene, pentene.

-5 letters: cement, emetic, emetin, entice, icemen, incept, incite, intime, intine, meinie, pecten, pectin, penmen, pinene, pinite, pitmen, tenpin, tiepin, tinmen.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-i-m-n-n-p-t"
 

+1 letter: impenitences, impertinence.

 

+2 letters: impertinences.

 

+3 letters: impertinencies, incompetencies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Impenitence


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6D 70 65 6E 69 74 65 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    --    .--.    .    -.    ..    -    .    -.    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01101110 01101001 01110100 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#109 &#112 &#101 &#110 &#105 &#116 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006D 0070 0065 006E 0069 0074 0065 006E 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4379827180758671806971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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