inexpiable

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English

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ expiable.

Adjective

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inexpiable (comparative more inexpiable, superlative most inexpiable)

  1. That cannot be expiated or atoned for; unforgivable.
    • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “How an Evening Passes at the Elms, and Dr. Toole Makes a Little Excursion; and Two Choice Spirits Discourse, and Hebe Trips In with the Nectar”, in The House by the Church-yard. [], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, [], →OCLC, page 277:
      [] the only son of that disgraced and blood-stained nobleman, who, lying in gaol, under sentence of death for a foul and cowardly murder, swallowed poison, and so closed his guilty life with a tremendous crime, in its nature inexpiable.

French

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Adjective

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inexpiable (plural inexpiables)

  1. inexpiable

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Spanish

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Adjective

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inexpiable m or f (masculine and feminine plural inexpiables)

  1. unforgivable

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