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uncomˈpassionate, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
Wanting in compassion; unfeeling.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. iii. i. 231 Neither bended knees,..nor siluer-shedding teares Could penetrate her vncompassionate Sire. a1663Sanderson Serm., Ad Magist. (1681) 80 To wrestle with the unjust and bitter upbraidings of unreasonable and uncompassionate men. 1671Milton Samson 818 If thou in strength all mortals dost exceed, In uncompassionate anger do not so. 1792G. Wakefield Mem. (1804) II. 392 Nor can a single syllable in support of such uncompassionate persuasions be produced from the Christian Scriptures. 1871Alabaster Wheel of Law 61 This is uncompassionate and wicked. 1877Wallace Russia iii. 39 The personification of uncompassionate, inflexible law.
absol.1688Collier Several Disc. (1725) 351 The Designing, the Parsimonious and Uncompassionate.
Hence uncomˈpassionately adv.; -ness.
1608Hieron Wks. I. 743 The vncompassionatenesse which I finde among the men of this yron age. 1612Shelton Quix. i. iii. x. 225 Catching hold of one anothers beards, and be-fisting themselues..vncompassionately. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 124 Cruelty is uncompassionateness. |