UNPARDONABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unpardonable mean? 

• UNPARDONABLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNPARDONABLE has 1 sense:

1. not admitting of pardon

  Familiarity information: UNPARDONABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNPARDONABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not admitting of pardon

Context example:

unpardonable behavior

Similar:

deadly; mortal (involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death)

inexcusable; unforgivable (not excusable)

inexpiable (incapable of being atoned for)

Antonym:

pardonable (admitting of being pardoned)

 Context examples 

It would be unpardonable to fail.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It was a subject which she must learn to speak of, and the weakness that shrunk from it would soon be quite unpardonable.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Robert's offence was unpardonable, but Lucy's was infinitely worse.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But in such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

For an instant I imagined that Bannister had taken the unpardonable liberty of examining my papers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of every body's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange every body's destiny.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

That was unpardonable, and Amy took no more notice of him for a long while, except a word now and then when she came to her chaperon between the dances for a necessary pin or a moment's rest.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was in a village at the Great Slave Lake, that, in the course of resenting the evil of the hands of the man-animals, he came to modify the law that he had learned from Grey Beaver: namely, that the unpardonable crime was to bite one of the gods.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Was it unpardonable to think it worth my while to come? and to arrive with some degree of hope?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

'The lock of hair, (repeating it from the letter,) which you so obligingly bestowed on me'—That is unpardonable.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)