a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1646. Bp. Hall, Devout Soul, xii. 42. The unpitiable, interminable, unmitigable tortures of those … never-dying souls.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VII. 34. Such as sad accident, or unpitiable presumption, threw in their way.
1844. in Life A. Fonblanque (1874), 259. An elderly gentleman with the military mania is as unpitiable a case as oue of the same years in the measles.
1873. Geo. Eliot, in Cross, Life (1885), III. 193. I … am at that unpitiable stage of illness which is counterbalanced by extra petting.
