remorselessadj.adv.

1593 B. Barnes Parthenophil & Parthenophe ii. vii. 80 Now to remorselesse iudges must I sewe For gracious pardon.

1596 Raigne of Edward III l. 1374 Let creeping serpents hide in hollow banckes, Sting with theyr tongues; we haue remorseles swordes, And they shall pleade for vs and our affaires.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion viii. 119 Whilst, we, in sundry Fields, our sundry fortunes prou'd With the remorseless Pict.

1645 J. Milton Epit. Marchioness of Winchester in Poems 24 Atropos..with remorsles cruelty, Spoil'd at once both fruit and tree.

1686 tr. J. Chardin Coronation Solyman 31 in Trav. Persia They are a sort of People endued with savage and remorseless Souls.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 274 All this the remorseless Basha imputed to obstinacy and guilt.

1783 W. Beckford Dreams vii. 34 I was in a dark, remorseless mood, which lasted me till we reached Brée, a shabby decayed town, encompassed by walls and ruined turrets.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxxvii. 55 So may such foes deserve the most remorseless deed.

1842 Times 29 Nov. 6/2 Year after year did this remorseless woman consign the children of her body to death.

1863 M. Oliphant Rector & Doctor's Family ix. 165 in Chrons. Carlingford It was daylight again, remorseless and uncompromising.

a1918 R. S. Bourne Hist. Literary Radical (1956) 296 These remorseless scientists who would reveal so many of our reticences—why can't they let us alone?

1948 R. Raven-Hart Canoe in Aust. 54 ‘Cast fleeces’, thrown out by the remorseless classer for lack of quality.

1993 Playboy Feb. 18/2 The..moviegoer..is likely to shudder at the pseudodocumentary about a camera crew going from crime to crime with a remorseless, vain, wisecracking serial killer.

1788 E. Hudson Ode St Cecilia's Birthday 13 Despair she sung, and Hell's remorseless pain, Absence of Hope, and Melancholy's reign.

1828 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 774 He is a most remorseless Talker.

1864 Littell's Living Age 26 Nov. 460/2 Alice..was fortunately too much occupied to take full recognizance of that remorseless progress of decay.

1932 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of Y i. ii. 48 Because of its very slowness there was something remorseless about it, like the march of Jagannath.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 122/2 The remorseless goose-stepping of the glamorous female warrior.

1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. v. 2/1 The 1980s saw a remorseless climb with scarcely a pause for breath.

2002 New Yorker 25 Nov. 58/1 More on-the-field pageantry and honorings, to break baseball's old habit of slow but remorseless action.

1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia sig. K*3^v Here horse and man (o're-turnd) for mercy cryde, With hands exstended to the merciles. That stopt theyr eares, and..put them all (remorceles) to the sword.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 213 As the Butcher takes away the Calfe,..Euen so remorselesse haue they borne him hence. View more context for this quotation

1702 T. Yalden Æsop at Court xiii. 34 I'll brush those Swigging Dogs away, That on thy Blood remorseless Prey.

1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 13 Want, and incurable Disease,..On hopeless Multitudes remorseless seize.

1899 Overland Monthly Nov. 407 Relentless I trail, and remorseless I slay!

1960 J. Joseph Sel. Poems (1999) 34 Sun and wind..Burst in an agony of glory on The body through which life remorseless runs.