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  1.  Impiety, wickedness.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter lxxii. 6. Hilde þai er in wickidnes & in þaire impite [v.r. vnpete].

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c. 1400.  Apol. Loll., 62. Wam þu fynd wickid þu schall condempne of vnpite.

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  2.  Lack of pity.

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1447.  Bokenham, Seyntys (Roxb.), 72. O cruel tyraunth ful of unpyte.

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1491.  Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), I. cxlv. 155/2. Of leesynges, of couetise,… of unpyte, of euyll mynde.

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1653.  H. Whistler, Upshot Inf. Baptisme, Pref. For preservation of freedom of holy Right herein, against Advances of Opposit unpitty.

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