unforgivingness
English
Etymology
unforgiving + -ness
Noun
unforgivingness (uncountable)
- The quality of being unforgiving.
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], OCLC 13631815:
- But now they are sufficiently cleared from every imputation of unforgivingness; for, while I appeared to them in the character of a vile hypocrite, pretending to true penitence, yet giving up myself to profligate courses, how could I expect either their pardon or blessing?
- 1817 December, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 1818, OCLC 318384910:
- She knew not how such an offence as hers might be classed by the laws of worldly politeness, to what a degree of unforgivingness it might with propriety lead, nor to what rigours of rudeness in return it might justly make her amenable.
- 1888, James Russell Lowell, “Credidimus Jovem Regnare” in Heartsease and Rue, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., p. 185,
- And yet I frankly must confess
- A secret unforgivingness,
- And shudder at the saving chrism
- Whose best New Birth is Pessimism;
- 1970, Tamara Talbot Rice, Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, Praeger, p. 105,
- They had spent their entire lives as prisoners in Siberia and they now appealed to the empress for their release. In a rare instance of unforgivingness Elizabeth refused to grant it.
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