单词 | unpiteously |
释义 | unpiteouslyadv.ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > impiety > [adverb] hinderfullichec1200 undevoutly1377 unpiteouslya1382 ungodly1526 ungodlily1583 impiously1595 indevoutly1694 undivinely1884 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xii. 2 Who forsothe trostith in his thoȝtis, vnpitously [L. impie] doth. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) 2 Pet. ii. 6 Puttinge ensaumple of hem that weren to doynge yuel, or vnpitously [L. impie]. 2. Pitilessly, unmercifully; cruelly, harshly. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adverb] unpiteouslyc1390 unruefullya1400 unruthfullya1400 vengeably1412 ruthlessly1581 unpitifully1587 inhumanely1598 pitilessly1611 uncompassionately1612 incompassionately1639 unpityingly1741 impitiably1835 tearlessly1853 c1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Bodl. 902) viii. l. 2994* He yit nevere unpitously Ayein the liges of his lond..Thurgh cruelte vengaunce soghte. c1400 Prickynge of Love (Harl.) (1983) 173 Whanne sheo hath þe maistrie ouer me, þenne sheo..trediþ on me dispitousli as a womman with-outen mercy and..vn-pitously. 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 10151 (MED) Langrauyis brothyr..From hyr dowarye hyr drof ful vnpytouslye. 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. xvii. sig. n.iiiv The darte that the deuyll casteth subtylly, and ryght vnpyteously. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxxii. sig. l.vi Whiche danes..Punysshed vnpiteously all this region With a wofull plage of great crudelite. 1833 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 199 Oxford..so unpiteously cramming her alumni with the shells alone. 1879 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 6 Nov. 3/2 Mr Lowe..has been unpiteously scornful and unrelentingly bitter. 1921 Relief Soc. Mag. Jan. 15 She could scarcely see a yard in front of her, the snow and wind lashed her face so unpiteously. 1993 Esquire July 58/2 A visitor to Paris described her unpiteously and with some measure of self-satisfaction. ‘She had grown thick,’ he wrote. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.a1382 |
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