unremorseless

unremorseless

English

Etymology

un- +‎ remorseless (un- functions as an intensifier)

Adjective

unremorseless (comparative more unremorseless, superlative most unremorseless)

1. (obsolete, rare) Utterly remorseless.
   • a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, An Elegy on the Death of […] Richard Clarke

     unremorseless Death

   • 1836-40, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker

     We are not free; we are slaves: one half of us is tyrants,—unremorseless, onfeelin', overbearin' tyrants, and vile usurpers; and the other half slaves […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unremorseless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)