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Meanings of unpardonable offence in English

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Usage of unpardonable offence in English
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To do so is to commit an unpardonable offence against good breeding.
Routledge's Manual of Etiquette
2
This in her eyes constituted the great and unpardonable offence of the Irish.
The Irish Race in the Past and the Present
3
His unpardonable offence was that he attacked marriage as an institution.
Getting Married
4
To them his deflection from duty would be an unpardonable offence.
The King's Arrow: A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists
5
To suppose you were- Iseeby the expression of your countenance-wouldbe the unpardonable offence.
Zenobia; or, the Fall of Palmyra
6
The unpardonable offence has been-inour not offending.
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1
7
To the soldier, this was an unpardonable offence.
The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna
8
A person may be restored to his caste, provided he has not committed an unpardonable offence.
Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.
9
But, in answering, he committed the unpardonable offence of leaving off the handle to the mate's name.
Two Years Before the Mast
10
For this unpardonable offence he was broken.
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
11
Who provoked, and by what unpardonable offence, this disastrous strife between two eminent Republics, so scandalous to Democratic Institutions?
Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams / Sixth President ...
12
Some shear very fairly and handsomely to a superficial eye, but commit the unpardonable offence of "leaving wool on."
Shearing in the Riverina, New South Wales
13
They can forgive a bitter word against themselves perhaps, but against their clan, or their dead, it is an unpardonable offence.
Scottish sketches
14
Had it been in the afternoon, it might have been excused; but to get drunk in the morning was an unpardonable offence.
Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawse...
15
Was it not De Quincey who was at school with a bully who believed he had been guilty of the unpardonable offence?
Essays in Little
16
While being tied, he committed an unpardonable offence: he resisted, and for that he must be made an example on their arrival home.
Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter
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