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inexpiable

[ in-eks-pee-uh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. not to be expiated; not allowing for expiation or atonement:

    an inexpiable crime.

  2. Obsolete. implacable:

    inexpiable hate.



inexpiable

/ ɪˈɛɪəə /

adjective

  1. incapable of being expiated; unpardonable
  2. archaic.
    implacable
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ辱Ա, noun
  • ˈ辱, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·p···Ա noun
  • ·p·· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of inexpiable1

From the Latin word Ա辱, dating back to 1560–70. See in- 3, expiable
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We also move forward through the inevitable media circus and court battle, the abdication of responsibility by everyone except the girl’s mother, who sags beneath the weight of an irrational yet inexpiable guilt.

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But “Manchester” strikes me as a film about moral rot, about inexpiable crimes of negligence and frivolity.

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Sin, inexpiable: this is not the kind of subject he took on before.

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Sports radio callers suspected the front office of writing off the season as it waited for its younger talent to develop, an inexpiable sin in sports-crazed Boston.

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I have never injured you—never avenged the inexpiable wrong you did me.”

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