a. [UN-1 7.] Pitiless.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., V. vi. 516. Vnpiteful questmongers and forsworen iurers.
c. 1510. Barclay, Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570), D. vj. Unpitifull art thou and cruell tormentour Which thine owne proper minde thus drownest in errour.
a. 1563. Bale, in Marbeck, Bk. of Notes (1581), 753. The vnpitifull murderers are also the same bloudthirstie Prelates.
1651. trans. De-las-Coveras’ Don Fenise, 27. The unpitifull hardnesse of these rockes where I was abandoned.
1658–9. Burton’s Diary (1828), III. 479. Where they have power, they are the unpitifullest people in the world.
