ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)
1605. Drayton, Heroical Ep., Matilda to K. John, 12. As though thy hard vnpittying hand had sent me Some new deuised torture to torment me.
1646. Crashaw, Carmen Deo Nostro, Weeper, xxvii. So sigh tormented sweets, opprest With proud unpittying fires.
1777. Potter, Æschylus, Prom. Bd., 10. Yet upbraid not My ruder and unpitying ruthlessness.
1796. Mrs. M. Robinson, Angelina, I. 59. Instances … where the purest sentiments have been contaminated … by sordid and unpitying parents!
1846. Mrs. A. Marsh, Father Darcy, II. i. 25. The proud, haughty, unpitying expression to be read there.
1870. L’Estrange, Miss Mitford, I. vi. 173. All these evils fall with an unpitying hand on the devoted heads of their correspondents.
