unforˈgiven, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. (in sense 2) OE. unforᵹifen, MDu. onvergeven.]
† 1. Sc. Without any remission. Obs.
| 1425 Sc. Acts Jas. I (1814) II. 12/1 Ande quha sa..be fundyn fautyfe sal pay ane vnlaw..vnforgevin. 1442 Extr. Aberdeen Rec. (1844) I. 7 The said Master Jhon sal pay to kyrk werk xl s. vnforgiffin. 1510 Ibid. 81 Ane amerciament of viii s. vnforgiven. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 242 Nane sould eit flesche on frydayes..vnder the paine of xx poundis on forgivin for the first fault. 1622 Extr. Aberdeen Rec. (1848) II. 378 The counsallour..sall pay for ilk dayis absence..twelff schillingis, money vnforgiwen. |
2. Not forgiven. Also absol.
| 1565 Harding Confut. Apol. Ch. Eng. v. vii. 251 b, That temporall satisfaction, which after the sacrament of penaunce is left vnforgeuen. 1737 Chesterfield Epitaph Q. Charlotte 18 To her own offspring mercy she denied, And unforgiving, unforgiven died. 1796 F. Burney Camilla V. 409 To present herself..undemanded and unforgiven at Etherington, she thought impossible. 1819 Shelley Cenci iv. i. 89 As she shall die unshrived and unforgiven. 1845 Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 226 And thou wilt then be wretcheder than I;—The unforgiving than the unforgiven. |