Christian penitence is something more than a thought or an emotion or a tear; it is action.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins; it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Stubborn, obstinate, pertinacious, intractable, refractory, contumacious.

  For fools are stubborn in their way,
  As coins are harden’d by th’ allay;
  And obstinacy’s ne’er so stiff
  As when ’tis in a wrong belief.

They may also laugh at their pertinacious and incurable obstinacy.

He who is intractable, he whom nothing can persuade, may boast himself invincible.

  There is a law in each well-order’d nation
  To curb those raging appetites that are
  Most disobedient and refractory.

He then dissolved Parliament, and sent its most refractory members to the Tower.

If he were contumacious, he might be excommunicated, or, in other words, be deprived of all civil rights and imprisoned for life.

EXERCISE E

The following list of synonyms is given for the convenience of those who wish additional material with which to work.  This is a selected list and makes no pretense to completeness.  It is suggested that you discriminate the words within each of the following groups, and use each word accurately in a sentence of your own making.

Abettor, accessory, accomplice, confederate, conspirator. 
Acknowledge, admit, confess, own, avow. 
Active, agile, nimble, brisk, sprightly, spry, bustling. 
Advise, counsel, admonish, caution, warn. 
Affecting, moving, touching, pathetic. 
Agnostic, skeptic, infidel, unbeliever, disbeliever. 
Amuse, entertain, divert. 
Announce, proclaim, promulgate, report, advertise, publish, bruit, blazon,
trumpet, herald. 
Antipathy, aversion, repugnance, disgust, loathing. 
Artifice, ruse, trick, dodge, manoeuver, wile, stratagem, subterfuge,
finesse. 
Ascend, mount, climb, scale. 
Associate, colleague, partner, helper, collaborator, coadjutor, companion,
helpmate, mate, team-mate, comrade, chum, crony, consort, accomplice,
confederate. 
Attach, affix, annex, append, subjoin. 
Attack, assail, assault, invade, beset, besiege, bombard, cannonade,
storm.

Begin, commence, inaugurate, initiate, institute, originate, start, found. 
Belief, faith, persuasion, conviction, tenet, creed. 
Belittle, decry, depreciate, disparage. 
Bind, secure, fetter, shackle, gyve. 
Bit, jot, mite, particle, grain, atom, speck, mote, whit, iota, tittle,
scintilla. 
Bluff, blunt, outspoken, downright, brusk, curt, crusty. 
Boast, brag, vaunt, vapor, gasconade. 
Body, corpse, remains, relics, carcass, cadaver, corpus. 
Bombastic, sophomoric, turgid, tumid, grandiose, grandiloquent,
magniloquent. 
Boorish, churlish, loutish, clownish, rustic, ill-bred. 
Booty, plunder, loot, spoil. 
Brittle, frangible, friable, fragile, crisp. 
Building, edifice, structure, house.