Impenitence n. The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart. "He will advance from one degree of wickedness and impenitence to another."
... with the various facets of pride, envy, vindictiveness, despair, and impenitence which go to form that harmonious whole, are already clearly mapped out in the Lucifero of Salandra. For this statement, which I find correct, Zicari gives chapter and verse, but it would take far too ... — Old Calabria • Norman Douglas
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