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† unˈpiteous, a.
[un-1 8, 5 b.]
†1. Impious, wicked. Also absol. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. met. i. (1868) 4 But now..myn vnpitouse [Camb. MS. vnpietous] lijf [L. impia vita] draweþ along vnagreable dwellynges in me. 1382Wyclif Prov. xxviii. 1 The vnpitouse [L. impius] fleeth, no man pursuende. c1400Apol. Loll. 61 Ȝe schal not..tak to hond to sey fals witnes for þe vnpitous.
2. Pitiless, unmerciful.
1390Gower Conf. III. 206 As the rages of the See Ben unpitous in the tempeste. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 3371 It is ful hard To lakke mercy and ben vnpitous. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 15 Have mercy lord jhesu up on me And lese not my soule with unpetous men. a1586Sidney Ps. (1823) xl. vi, Lett them with shame be cloied,..Who so unpittious be. 1612T. James Corrupt. Scripture iii. 8 Whilst the vnpitous man defouleth a rightfuller than him⁓selfe. 1725Pope Odyss. xx. 253 The tyrant, not the father of the skies! Unpiteous of the race thy will began. 1954W. Faulkner Fable 289 In our country, in our hard and unpiteous mountains, people used..children as people in lands savage with dangerous animals used guns and bullets: to defend, preserve themselves. |