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unˈpitiful, a. [un-1 7.] Pitiless.
c1449Pecock Repr. v. vi. 516 Vnpiteful questmongers and forsworen iurers. c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) D. vj, Unpitifull art thou and cruell tormentour Which thine owne proper minde thus drownest in errour. a1563Bale in Marbeck Bk. of Notes (1581) 753 The vnpitifull murderers are also the same bloudthirstie Prelates. 1651tr. De-las-Coveras' Don Fenise 27 The unpitifull hardnesse of these rockes where I was abandoned. 1658–9Burton's Diary (1828) III. 479 Where they have power, they are the unpitifullest people in the world. |