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pitilessness

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Pitiless \Pit"i*less\, a. Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements. Exciting no pity; as, a pitiless condition. [1913 Webster] -- Pit"i*less*ly , adv. -- Pit"i*less*ness , n.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The condition of being pitiless

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. feelings of extreme heartlessness [syn: cruelty , mercilessness , ruthlessness ] mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity [syn: ruthlessness ]

Usage examples of pitilessness.

Unlike too, of course, but it is the pitilessness common to both extremes that shows most strongly in an old, wrinkled visage.

For all the savagery of the Holy Inquisition and the pitilessness with which the hidalgos enforced the expulsion, Spain and Portugal's Sephardim would never be able to forget Iberia, the sun-drenched land they had come to love, spending centuries helping to build, convinced that Jews had finally found a place of welcome and refuge.