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remorseless, a.|rɪˈmɔːslɪs|
[f. as prec. + -less.]
Devoid of remorse; pitiless, cruel.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, i. iv. 142 Women are..pittifull..; Thou, sterne, obdurate, flintie, rough, remorselesse. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. viii. 349 Whilst we in sundry Fields our sundry fortunes prov'd With the remorseless Pict. 1631Milton Epit. Marchioness Winchester 29 Atropos..with remorsles cruelty, Spoil'd at once both fruit and tree. 1686tr. Chardin's Coronat. Solyman 31 They are a sort of People endued with savage and remorseless Souls. 1728Morgan Algiers II. iv. 274 All this the remorseless Basha imputed to obstinacy and guilt. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. lxxxvii, So may such foes deserve the most remorseless deed! 1853J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) II. i. i. 22 They felt..the resistless crushing force of a remorseless foe. 1873Mozley Univ. Serm. viii. (1876) 164 The page of history is stained by the dark acts of..remorseless superstition.
b. quasi-adv. Without remorse.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. i. 213 As the Butcher takes away the Calfe,..Euen so remorselesse haue they borne him hence. 1742Young Nt. Th. i. 255 Want, and incurable disease,..On hopeless multitudes remorseless seize. |