UNPARDONABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unpardonably mean? 

• UNPARDONABLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNPARDONABLY has 1 sense:

1. in an unpardonable manner or to an unpardonable degree

  Familiarity information: UNPARDONABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNPARDONABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an unpardonable manner or to an unpardonable degree

Synonyms:

inexcusably; unforgivably; unpardonably

Context example:

he was inexcusably cruel to his wife

Antonym:

pardonably (in an excusable manner or to an excusable degree)

Pertainym:

unpardonable (not admitting of pardon)

 Context examples 

Frederick could not be unpardonably guilty, while Henry made himself so agreeable.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Supposing even that they had never become intimate friends; that she had never been admitted into Miss Fairfax's confidence on this important matter—which was most probable—still, in knowing her as she ought, and as she might, she must have been preserved from the abominable suspicions of an improper attachment to Mr. Dixon, which she had not only so foolishly fashioned and harboured herself, but had so unpardonably imparted; an idea which she greatly feared had been made a subject of material distress to the delicacy of Jane's feelings, by the levity or carelessness of Frank Churchill's.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)