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Inexpiable adj.

Admitting of no expiation, atonement, or satisfaction; as, an inexpiable crime or offense.

Incapable of being mollified or appeased; relentless; implacable. (Archaic) "Inexpiable hate." "They are at inexpiable war with all establishments."

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Etymology of 'Inexpiable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inexpiable" Quotes from Famous Books

... drew her down by his side, and held her hands to keep her there. And yet he felt that it was he who was being led; he who was being drawn, he who was being held—over the brink of the immeasurable, inexpiable folly. In all this his genius remained alone and apart, unmoved by anything he did or said, as if it knew that through it all the ...

— The Divine Fire • May Sinclair

... astonished at the perpetually increasing magnificence of the last seven books. Homer there truly begins to be himself. The battle of the Scamander, the funeral of Patroclus, and the high and solemn close of the whole bloody tale in tenderness and inexpiable sorrow, are wrought in a manner incomparable with anything of the same kind. The Odyssey is sweet, but there is nothing like this." About this time, prompted by Mrs. Gisborne, he began the study of Spanish, and conceived ...

— Percy Bysshe Shelley • John Addington Symonds

... believe, notwithstanding this positive testimony, that the duke of Norfolk, a man of mild dispositions and guided in the main by religion and conscience, would have hazarded, or would not have scrupled, so atrocious, so inexpiable an act of violence, as that of cutting off the regent of Scotland returning to his own country under sanction of the public faith and the express protection of the queen: but he may have indulged ...

— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

... take life but even inflict torture beforehand. The mere suspicion of intent is sometimes enough to deprive such a community of its reason, for there are communities which have brooded over the possibility of the commission of the inexpiable crime until the residents are not quite sane upon this matter. Naturally calmness and forbearance in dealing with other and less heinous forms of negro crime are not always found in such a neighborhood. This fact helps to explain, though not to ...

— The New South - A Chronicle Of Social And Industrial Evolution • Holland Thompson

... them swear on the Testament to keep the secret of the confounding turpitudes which the chateau conceals, and he can be sure that not one will violate the oath, for, in the Middle Ages, the most reckless of freebooters would not commit the inexpiable sin of ...

— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans