lack-pity
English
Etymology
lack + pity
Adjective
lack-pity (comparative more lack-pity, superlative most lack-pity)
- merciless; pitiless
- 1881, Rossetti, Christina, “An Old-World Thicket”, in A Pageant and Other Poems, page 122:
- 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.
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