Unpiteously

adv. [UN-¹ 11.]

  † 1.  Impiously, wickedly. Obs.

1382.  Wyclif, Prov. xii. 2. Who forsothe trostith in his thoȝtis, vnpitously [L. impie] doth. Ibid., 2 Pet. ii. 6. Puttinge ensaumple of hem that weren to doynge yuel, or vnpitously.

  2.  Pitilessly; unmercifully.

1390.  Gower, Conf. (1901), II. 470. He yit nevere unpitously Ayein the liges of his lond … Thurgh cruelte vengaunce soghte.

1502.  Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W., 1506), II. xvii. 130. Y^e darte y^t the deuyll casteth subtylly, & ryght unpytuously.

1513.  Bradshaw, St. Werburge, I. 3465. Whiche danes … Punysshed vnpiteously all this region With a wofull plage of great crudelite.

1833.  Sir W. Hamilton, in Edin. Rev., CXVI. April, 299. Oxford, in her old age, has proved herself no Alma Mater, in thus so unpiteously cramming her alumni with the shells alone.