The negation or rather privation of repentance in a sinner. This negation may be simply a continuation and permanence in a state of sin, or it may be a deliberate resolution not to repent. A conscious, deliberate, and absolute impenitence implies special malice and is one of the sins against the Holy Ghost, unpardonable because not repented (Matthew 12).
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