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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMPEN'ITENCE
IMPEN'ITENCY, n. [L. in and poenitens, from poeniteo, to repent, poena, pain.] Want of penitence or repentance; absence of contrition or sorrow for sin; obduracy; hardness of heart. Final impenitence dooms the sinner to inevitable punishment.
He will advance from one degree of impenitence to another.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the trait of refusing to repent [syn: impenitence, impenitency]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1595 the quality or state of being impenitent

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Impenitence Im*pen"i*tence, n. [L. impenitentia: cf. F. imp['e]nitence.] The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart. He will advance from one degree of wickedness and impenitence to another. --Rogers.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n.; (also impenitency) Obduracy hardness of heart, stubborn sinfulness, want of repentance, refusal to repent, lack of contrition.