inexpiable
Americanadjective
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not to be expiated; not allowing for expiation or atonement.
an inexpiable crime.
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Obsolete. implacable.
inexpiable hate.
adjective
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incapable of being expiated; unpardonable
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archaic implacable
Other Word Forms
- inexpiableness noun
- inexpiably adverb
Etymology
Origin of inexpiable
From the Latin word inexpiābilis, dating back to 1560–70. See in- 3, expiable
Example Sentences
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We also move forward through the inevitable media circus and court battle, the abdication of responsibility by everyone except the girl’s mother, who sags beneath the weight of an irrational yet inexpiable guilt.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2019
But “Manchester” strikes me as a film about moral rot, about inexpiable crimes of negligence and frivolity.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 24, 2017
Sin, inexpiable: this is not the kind of subject he took on before.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2016
Sports radio callers suspected the front office of writing off the season as it waited for its younger talent to develop, an inexpiable sin in sports-crazed Boston.
From BusinessWeek • Apr. 24, 2014
He it was who committed those inexpiable sins which sealed the sentence of Judah's destruction.
From Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by Newman, John Henry
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