† incompassionn.
Obsolete.
Want or absence of compassion or pity.
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the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [noun]
unpiteousnessc1400
unruthc1425
unpity1447
inhumanity1477
unpitifulness1526
incompassionateness1621
incompassion1627
pitilessness1682
ruthlessness1777
dispiteousness1861
uncompassionateness1862
1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 268 There are many publique and nationall sinnes... [These include] our Incompassion to our brethren miserably wasted with Warre and Famine in other parts of the world.
1630 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 259 Whilst we avoid the one extreme, that of incompassion, we may not fall into the other, that of foolish pity.
1675 R. Allestree Art Contentm. x. 187 We..look on our enjoiments and their sufferings thro the contracting optics of ingratitude and incompassion.
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