1591. Shaks., Two Gent., III. i. 231. Neither bended knees,… nor siluer-shedding teares Could penetrate her vncompassionate Sire.
a. 1663. Sanderson, Serm., Ad Magist. (1681), 80. To wrestle with the unjust and bitter upbraidings of unreasonable and uncompassionate men.
1671. Milton, Samson, 818. If thou in strength all mortals dost exceed, In uncompassionate anger do not so.
1792. G. Wakefield, Mem. (1804), II. 392. Nor can a single syllable in support of such uncompassionate persuasions be produced from the Christian Scriptures.
1871. Alabaster, Wheel of Law, 61. This is uncompassionate and wicked.
1877. Wallace, Russia, iii. 39. The personification of uncompassionate, inflexible law.
absol. 1688. Collier, Several Disc. (1725), 351. The Designing, the Parsimonious and Uncompassionate.
Hence Uncompassionately adv.; -ness.
1608. Hieron, Wks., I. 743. The vncompassionatenesse which I finde among the men of this yron age.
1612. Shelton, Quix., I. III. x. 225. Catching hold of one anothers beards, and be-fisting themselues … vncompassionately.
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 124. Cruelty is uncompassionateness.
