lack-pity

adj

lack-pity

adj

Etymology From lack + pity.

1

merciless; pitiless

Each sore defeat of my defeated life / Faced and outfaced me in that bitter hour; / And turned to yearning palsy all my power, / And all my peace to strife, / Self stabbing self with keen lack-pity knife.1881, Christina Rossetti, “An Old-World Thicket”, in A Pageant and Other Poems, page 122:

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