mercilessadj.adv.n.

Brit.

/ˈməːsɪlᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈmərsələs/

Forms: late Middle English mercilees, late Middle English mercilese, late Middle English mercylese, late Middle English–1500s mercyles, late Middle English–1500s mercylesse, late Middle English–1600s mercilesse, late Middle English–1600s 1800s merciles, 1600s–1700s mercyless, 1600s– merciless; Scottish pre-1700 mairciles, pre-1700 mearceles, pre-1700 mercieles, pre-1700 merciles, pre-1700 mercyles, pre-1700 mercyless, pre-1700 1700s– merciless.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mercy n., -less suffix.

Etymology: < mercy n. + -less suffix.

A. adj.

a. Of persons, their attributes, actions, etc.: without mercy; showing no mercy; pitiless, unrelenting. merciless Parliament n. [after post-classical Latin parliamentum sine misericordia (a1500 in Knighton)] historical = unmerciful Parliament n. at unmerciful adj. and n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adjective] > merciless

orelesseOE

sternc1275

fell?c1335

unmerciablea1382

wantona1393

mercilessc1400

unmercifula1425

gracelessc1425

unmercifula1450

unmerciless1545

unsparinga1586

spareless1589

unhuman1611

inclement1621

unmercied1627

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > a particular English or British parliament > specific

great Parliamentc1450

Good Parliament1580

addle parliament1614

giunto1641

junto1641

Unlearned Parliament1643

Long Parliament1646

rump?1653

Short Parliament1653

lay Parliament1655

Barebone's Parliament1657

Rump Parliament1659

Little Parliamenta1675

Long Parliament1678

Pensioner Parliament1678

Pensioned Parliament1681

Bluestocking Parliamenta1683

Pension Parliament1682

Pensionary Parliament1690

marvellous Parliament?1706

rumple1725

lack-learning Parliament1765

unreported Parliament1839

Cavalier Parliament1849

Addled Parliament1857

merciless Parliament1875

wonderful Parliament1878

nominated Parliament1898

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 250 (MED) Þer watz malys mercyles and mawgre much scheued.

a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) 2206 (MED) So mercyles in his cruelte Thilke day he was vpon hem founde.

c1475 Life St. Anne (Trin. Cambr.) (1928) 65 (MED) Beware, ye cruell hertes mercyles!

1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Dvi^v Iudgemente shall be geuen..Wythoute all mercye to suche as be merciles.

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §94. 360 They..plotted the matchlesse, mercilesse, devilish, and damnable gun-powder-treason.

1679 ‘Ephelia’ Female Poems 30 Thou'lt neither Cure, nor mitigate my Pain: Mercyless Tyrant!

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 290 I had rather..be devour'd alive, than fall into the merciless Claws of the Priests.

1800 J. B. Williamson Preservation iv. ii. 54 Merciles dogs—more barbarous than the storm!

1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. ii. vii. 313 A stern prince, merciless in his exactions.

1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvi. §266. 482 The ‘merciless’ parliament sat for 122 days. Its acts fully establish its right to the title.

1900 J. Morley Cromwell vi. 94 The merciless suppression of the rising of the Ulster chieftains.

1982 U. Bentley Natural Order (1983) 179 A woman in possession of a coveted lover is a merciless creature, glorying in the heartache of her rivals.

b. In extended use, applied to things (material or immaterial) portrayed as hard and unrelenting.

ΚΠ

1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 185^v Water,..as a mercyles element,..committed her to the botomles throts & goolphes of the sourges.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. viii. sig. H5^v All dismayd through mercilesse despaire.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 185 The mercilesse fury of the Sea.

1714 A. Pope Corr. Oct. (1956) I. 265 Whatever Ravages a merciless Distemper may commit,..she shall have one man as much her Admirer as ever.

1850 H. Melville White-jacket lxxxv. 419 His barber—a fellow who, from his merciless rasping, was called Blue-Skin.

1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xix. 306 I had no taste..for a long drive at that hour of the night and in so merciless a rain.

1917 W. Owen Exposure in Coll. Poems (1963) 48 Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us.

1984 E. O'Brien Fanatic Heart 376 Oh, cruel life; oh, merciless fate; oh heartless man, she sobbed.

†2. Without receiving mercy; unpitied. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 2971 (MED) And Innocentis mercyles schal blede.

c1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 193 (MED) Ther ys no remedy Without your comfort, but mercylese to dy.

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 119 God hes left us mercyles.

1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xvii. 11 All vertew in hir visage dois remane, Bot merciles I go from ȝeir to ȝeir.

†B. adv.

= mercilessly adv. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adverb] > mercilessly

unsparelya1225

without sparea1300

without(en) grith13..

mercilessc1425

unmercifully1536

mercilesslya1576

unsparinglya1631

inclemently1789

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 923 Naulus..and Oetes..Accorded ben..Be oon assent tavenge merciles Þe cruel mordre of Pallamydes.

1531 Bible (Tyndale) Deut. xiii. 15 Thou shalt smyte the dwellers of that citie with the edge of the swerde, and destroye it mercylesse and all that is therein.

1556 W. Lauder Compend. Tractate Dewtie of Kyngis sig. C2^v O Lord,..help the pure, that ar in stres Opprest and hereit mercyles.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 Thee southwynd merciles eager Three gallant vessels on rocks gnawne craggye reposed.

†C. n.

1. = mercilessness n. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [noun] > mercilessness

unmercyc1425

unmercifulheadc1450

unmercifulness1534

merciless1584

mercilessness1591

inclemency1598

1584 C. Robinson et al. Handefull Pleasant Delites (new ed.) sig. Bvi The torments..Which he..had suffered long, Al through this Ladies mercilesse.

2. A merciless person. Also with the: merciless people as a class. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1592 S. Daniel Delia Sonn. xi I pray in vaine, a merciles to moue.

1816 M. Holford Margaret of Anjou viii. 341 Oft has he known..Those joys, to demons dear, which crown the merciless!

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	merciless
释义	mercilessadj.adv.n. Brit. /ˈməːsɪlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈmərsələs/ Forms: late Middle English mercilees, late Middle English mercilese, late Middle English mercylese, late Middle English–1500s mercyles, late Middle English–1500s mercylesse, late Middle English–1600s mercilesse, late Middle English–1600s 1800s merciles, 1600s–1700s mercyless, 1600s– merciless; Scottish pre-1700 mairciles, pre-1700 mearceles, pre-1700 mercieles, pre-1700 merciles, pre-1700 mercyles, pre-1700 mercyless, pre-1700 1700s– merciless. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mercy n., -less suffix. Etymology: < mercy n. + -less suffix. A. adj. 1. a. Of persons, their attributes, actions, etc.: without mercy; showing no mercy; pitiless, unrelenting. merciless Parliament n. [after post-classical Latin parliamentum sine misericordia (a1500 in Knighton)] historical = unmerciful Parliament n. at unmerciful adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adjective] > merciless orelesseOE sternc1275 fell?c1335 unmerciablea1382 wantona1393 mercilessc1400 unmercifula1425 gracelessc1425 unmercifula1450 unmerciless1545 unsparinga1586 spareless1589 unhuman1611 inclement1621 unmercied1627 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > a particular English or British parliament > specific great Parliamentc1450 Good Parliament1580 addle parliament1614 giunto1641 junto1641 Unlearned Parliament1643 Long Parliament1646 rump?1653 Short Parliament1653 lay Parliament1655 Barebone's Parliament1657 Rump Parliament1659 Little Parliamenta1675 Long Parliament1678 Pensioner Parliament1678 Pensioned Parliament1681 Bluestocking Parliamenta1683 Pension Parliament1682 Pensionary Parliament1690 marvellous Parliament?1706 rumple1725 lack-learning Parliament1765 unreported Parliament1839 Cavalier Parliament1849 Addled Parliament1857 merciless Parliament1875 wonderful Parliament1878 nominated Parliament1898 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 250 (MED) Þer watz malys mercyles and mawgre much scheued. a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) 2206 (MED) So mercyles in his cruelte Thilke day he was vpon hem founde. c1475 Life St. Anne (Trin. Cambr.) (1928) 65 (MED) Beware, ye cruell hertes mercyles! 1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Dvi^v Iudgemente shall be geuen..Wythoute all mercye to suche as be merciles. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §94. 360 They..plotted the matchlesse, mercilesse, devilish, and damnable gun-powder-treason. 1679 ‘Ephelia’ Female Poems 30 Thou'lt neither Cure, nor mitigate my Pain: Mercyless Tyrant! 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 290 I had rather..be devour'd alive, than fall into the merciless Claws of the Priests. 1800 J. B. Williamson Preservation iv. ii. 54 Merciles dogs—more barbarous than the storm! 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. ii. vii. 313 A stern prince, merciless in his exactions. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvi. §266. 482 The ‘merciless’ parliament sat for 122 days. Its acts fully establish its right to the title. 1900 J. Morley Cromwell vi. 94 The merciless suppression of the rising of the Ulster chieftains. 1982 U. Bentley Natural Order (1983) 179 A woman in possession of a coveted lover is a merciless creature, glorying in the heartache of her rivals. b. In extended use, applied to things (material or immaterial) portrayed as hard and unrelenting. ΚΠ 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 185^v Water,..as a mercyles element,..committed her to the botomles throts & goolphes of the sourges. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. viii. sig. H5^v All dismayd through mercilesse despaire. View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 185 The mercilesse fury of the Sea. 1714 A. Pope Corr. Oct. (1956) I. 265 Whatever Ravages a merciless Distemper may commit,..she shall have one man as much her Admirer as ever. 1850 H. Melville White-jacket lxxxv. 419 His barber—a fellow who, from his merciless rasping, was called Blue-Skin. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xix. 306 I had no taste..for a long drive at that hour of the night and in so merciless a rain. 1917 W. Owen Exposure in Coll. Poems (1963) 48 Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us. 1984 E. O'Brien Fanatic Heart 376 Oh, cruel life; oh, merciless fate; oh heartless man, she sobbed. †2. Without receiving mercy; unpitied. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 2971 (MED) And Innocentis mercyles schal blede. c1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 193 (MED) Ther ys no remedy Without your comfort, but mercylese to dy. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 119 God hes left us mercyles. 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xvii. 11 All vertew in hir visage dois remane, Bot merciles I go from ȝeir to ȝeir. †B. adv. = mercilessly adv. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adverb] > mercilessly unsparelya1225 without sparea1300 without(en) grith13.. mercilessc1425 unmercifully1536 mercilesslya1576 unsparinglya1631 inclemently1789 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 923 Naulus..and Oetes..Accorded ben..Be oon assent tavenge merciles Þe cruel mordre of Pallamydes. 1531 Bible (Tyndale) Deut. xiii. 15 Thou shalt smyte the dwellers of that citie with the edge of the swerde, and destroye it mercylesse and all that is therein. 1556 W. Lauder Compend. Tractate Dewtie of Kyngis sig. C2^v O Lord,..help the pure, that ar in stres Opprest and hereit mercyles. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 Thee southwynd merciles eager Three gallant vessels on rocks gnawne craggye reposed. †C. n. 1. = mercilessness n. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [noun] > mercilessness unmercyc1425 unmercifulheadc1450 unmercifulness1534 merciless1584 mercilessness1591 inclemency1598 1584 C. Robinson et al. Handefull Pleasant Delites (new ed.) sig. Bvi The torments..Which he..had suffered long, Al through this Ladies mercilesse. 2. A merciless person. Also with the: merciless people as a class. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1592 S. Daniel Delia Sonn. xi I pray in vaine, a merciles to moue. 1816 M. Holford Margaret of Anjou viii. 341 Oft has he known..Those joys, to demons dear, which crown the merciless! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.n.c1400
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