inexpiable
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]inexpiable (comparative more inexpiable, superlative most inexpiable)
- 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
[edit]Adjective
[edit]inexpiable (plural inexpiables)
Further reading
[edit]- “inexpiable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]inexpiable m or f (masculine and feminine plural inexpiables)
Further reading
[edit]- “inexpiable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10