1778. Hartley, Pref. to Swedenborg’s Heav. & Hell, p. xlviii. The self-hardened … render themselves unreceptive of mercy.
1865. M. Pattison, Ess. (1889), I. 349. To sharpen the attention of a defiant and unreceptive mind such as Wolf.
1877. ‘H. A. Page,’ De Quincy, II. xix. 147. That wholly unreceptive … mood which cannot even temporarily condescend to sympathy.
