unforgiving
adjective
not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
unforgivingness
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a word derived from
unforgiving.
Example Sentences
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No one, however, supposes for a moment that a man who has once refused to forgive his brother, shall therefore be condemned to endless unforgiveness and unforgivingness.
From Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. by George MacDonald
It was in no spirit of unforgivingness, for he was perfectly civil; neither did he owe them any grudge, grudges being forbidden usually by dog law and only entertained by the poorest characters of all.
From 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers by Ernest Gambier-Parry
He knows that that in him would be the same unforgivingness for which he refuses to forgive man.
From Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. by George MacDonald
Once before, in the years that were gone, she had thrust him forth; and in the empty years that had succeeded she had learnt bitterly to regret the hard unforgivingness of that act.
From Grit Lawless by F.E. Mills Young
I do not mean, of course, cruelty, but unforgivingness, and even the tendency to prefer justice to mercy.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
