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dispiteous

adj

Etymology

Variant of despiteous, later reanalysed as dis- + piteous.

  1. derived from piteus
  2. inherited from pitous
  3. prefixed as dispiteous — “dis + piteous”

Definitions

  1. Not showing mercy or pity.

    • […] these .ii. noble princes [wer] by treyterous tiranny taken & depriued of their estate, shortly shut vp in prison & priuely slain & murderd by yᵉ cruell ambicion of their vnnaturall vncle & dispiteous tourmentours […]
    • How now, foolish rheum! Turning dispiteous torture out of door! I must be brief, lest resolution drop Out at mine eyes in tender womanish tears.
    • O England! when the Wallace Wight was led, A fettered wonder, to thy capital, How cruel, how dispiteous was his fall!

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA