irremissible

Irremissible, ir-re-mis′i-bl, adj. not to be remitted or forgiven.—ns.

The bishop adds, that he spoke to Carranza on the subject, and attributed his silence to humility; that at another time when he was preaching before the king, he said, that some sins were irremissible.

His irremissible sin was that of “modernizing the English” of Lord Bacon.

But he must comply with two irremissible technical demands.

Here faith means more than loyal acceptance of the divine law and reverent trust in the lawgiver; it implies a consciousness, at once continually present and continually transcended, of the radical imperfection of all human obedience to the law, and at the same time of the irremissible condemnation which this imperfection entails.