contrition.
hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy.
V. be impenitent &c adj.; steel the heart, harden the heart; die game,
die and make no sign, die unshriven, die without benefit of clergy.
Adj. impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate; hard, hardened; seared,
recusant; unrepentant; relentless, remorseless, graceless, shriftless†.
lost, incorrigible, irreclaimable.
unreconstructed, unregenerate, unreformed; unrepented†,
unreclaimed†, unatoned.