impiteous
English
Adjective
impiteous (comparative more impiteous, superlative most impiteous)
- (obsolete) Not showing pity or mercy.
- 1547, Arthur Kelton, A Chronycle with a Genealogie Declaryng That the Brittons and Welshemen are Linealiye Dyscended from Brute, London: Richard Grafton:
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- The Ocean (ouer-peering of his List)
Eates not the Flats with more impittious haste
Then young Laertes, in a Riotous head,
Ore-beares your Officers,
- 1878, Tommaso Campanella, “Sonnet XXIII. The Modern Cupid”, in John Addington Symonds, transl., The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella, London: Smith, Elder, page 141:
- Through full three thousand years the world reveres
Blind Love that bears the quiver and hath wings:
Now too he’s deaf, and to the sufferings
Of folk in anguish turns impiteous ears.
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