inexpiate

English

Etymology

From Latin inexpiātus. See in- (“not”) +‎ expiate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɛkspiət/

Adjective

inexpiate (comparative more inexpiate, superlative most inexpiate)

1. (obsolete) Not appeased or placated.

   Synonym: inexpiated

   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     To rest inexpiate were much too rude a part.

     The spelling has been modernized.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inexpiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)