Obs. [UN-1 12.]
1. Impiety, wickedness.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter lxxii. 6. Hilde þai er in wickidnes & in þaire impite [v.r. vnpete].
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 62. Wam þu fynd wickid þu schall condempne of vnpite.
2. Lack of pity.
1447. Bokenham, Seyntys (Roxb.), 72. O cruel tyraunth ful of unpyte.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), I. cxlv. 155/2. Of leesynges, of couetise, of unpyte, of euyll mynde.
1653. H. Whistler, Upshot Inf. Baptisme, Pref. For preservation of freedom of holy Right herein, against Advances of Opposit unpitty.