irremission
English
Etymology
Noun
irremission (uncountable)
- (archaic) Refusal of pardon.
- a. 1631 (date written), John Donne, “(please specify the chapter or sermon)”, in LXXX Sermons Preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine Iohn Donne […], London: Richard Royston, […], and Richard Marriot […], published 1640, →OCLC:
- for in all those three Euangelists, where this fearfull denunciation is interminated, still it is in a phrase, of somewhat more mildnesse, then so; It is, It shall not be forgiven, It is not, it cannot be forgiven: It is an irremission, it is not an irremissiblenesse.
References
- “irremission”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.