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lack-pity

adj

Etymology

From lack + pity.

  1. derived from pietās
  2. derived from pitet
  3. derived from pité
  4. inherited from pitye
  5. compounded as lack-pity — “lack + pity”

Definitions

  1. merciless

    merciless; pitiless

    • Each sore defeat of my defeated life / Faced and outfaced me in that bitter hour; / And turned to yearning palsy all my power, / And all my peace to strife, / Self stabbing self with keen lack-pity knife.

The neighborhood

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