Example Sentences

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I do not mean, of course, cruelty, but unforgivingness, and even the tendency to prefer justice to mercy.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil

She was, in truth, nearly as anxious about the one as the other, for was not the unforgivingness of the one as bad—was it not even worse than the theft of the other.

From Weighed and Wanting by MacDonald, George

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 MacDonald, George

Think of it!—crying because of what he had done! and for my cruelty and unforgivingness!

From Banked Fires by Savi, E. W. (Ethel Winifred)

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 Young, F.E. Mills