lack-pity en · ADJ
Etymology
From lack + pity.
Meanings
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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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more lack-pity | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most lack-pity | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |