c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 108. Þurghe his wyckede and unrepentant herte.
1395. Purvey, Remonstr. (1851), 119. The curat shulde remove hem fro Goddis boord, if he parceyuith hem vnrepentaunt.
c. 1440. Jacob’s Well, 9. In þis cursyng, who-so deye vnrepentaunt, schal haue a dredeful ende!
1548. Cranmer, Catech., 222 b. Unrepentaunte synners and vnbelevers.
1588. Marprel. Epist. (Arb.), 45. The soule of the vnrepentant papist.
1631. High Commission Cases (Camden), 213. The body of the unrepentant sinner.
1671. Milton, P. R., III. 429. Should I of these the liberty regard, Who,… unrepentant, unreform’d, Headlong would follow.
1813. Scott, Rokeby, III. xiv. Among the feasters waited near Sorrow, and unrepentant fear.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng., I. 358. The two offenders were hopelessly unrepentant.
1869. Mozley, Univ. Serm., ii. (1877), 34. False goodness is … an unrepentant type of evil.
absol. 1581. A. Golding, Test. 12 Patriarchs, 59. The Lorde, who either taketh away his benefites from the wicked,… or els reserueth them in the vnrepentant, to their endlesse punishment.
1617. J. Barbier, Janua Ling., 4. The sinnes of the vnrepentant.
Hence Unrepentantly adv., -ness.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 366/2. *On-repentawntly, inpenitenter.
1647. Trapp, Comm. Matt. xxvi. 75. Stephen Gardiner … both stinkingly and unrepentantly died.
1859. Lyndesay’s Wks., 440, marg. Princes that, unrepentantly, live amiss.
1561. Daus, trans. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573), 126 b. The *vnrepentauntnesse and lasciuiousnes of them.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxix. 29. This is the last curse … that foloweth the unrepentantnesse, of which he spake.
