English

Adjective

impenitent

1. Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart.
   • Bishop Hall

     A careless and impenitent heart.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16

     “Captain Peleg,” said Bildad steadily, “thy conscience may be drawing ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I can’t tell; but as thou art still an impenitent man, Captain Peleg, I greatly fear lest thy conscience be but a leaky one; and will in the end sink thee foundering down to the fiery pit, Captain Peleg.”

Noun

impenitent ‎(plural impenitents)

1. One who is not penitent.

References

• impenitent in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• impenitent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913