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ˈruthlessness
[-ness.]
Ruthless quality or character; pitilessness.
1777Potter æschylus, Prometheus Chain'd 10 Yet upbraid not My ruder and unpitying ruthlessness. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 150 A crabbed eld And toil, and ruthlessness of rigorous death. 1874Green Short Hist. iv. §3. 175 He had inherited the fierce ruthlessness of the Angevins. |