1546. Coverdale, Treatise on Lord’s Supper, A v b. The vnpenitent herte of the persone whych receyueth it [sc. the sacrament].
1562. Pilkington, Expos. Abdyas, 128. It [sc. absolution] is no more profitable thanne … the communion is too an hypocrite or unpenitente sinner.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., III. xlii. 275. The Apostles had not the Power … to grant it [sc. Baptism] to the Un-penitent.
1801. Southey, Garci Ferrandez, II. iv. Fearless, unpenitent, unblest, Without a prayer they sunk to rest.
