Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IM-PEN'I-TENCE, or IM-PEN'ITEN-CY
IM-PEN'I-TENCE, or IM-PEN'ITEN-CY, n. [Fr. impenitence; Sp. impenitencia; It. impenitenza; L. in and pœnitens, from pœniteo, to repent, pœna, pain.]
Want of penitence or repentance; absence of contrition or sorrow for sin; obduracy; hardness of heart. Final impenitence dooms the sinner to inevitable punishment. He will advance from one degree of impenitence to another. Rogers.
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