lack-pity

adjective

merciless; pitiless

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Meanings

adjectivelack-pity (comparative more lack-pity, superlative most lack-pity)

comparative more lack-pity · superlative most lack-pity

  1. 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.

    1881, Christina Rossetti, “An Old-World Thicket”, in A Pageant and Other Poems, page 122

Origin

From lack + pity.

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