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unpitifully en · ADV

Etymology

From unpitiful + -ly.

Meanings

1. (archaic) pitilessly
   • Mistress Page. Trust me, he beat him most pitifully. Mistress Ford. Nay, by the mass, that he did not; he beat him most unpitifully, methought. c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
   • […] yee so unpittifully vex men, cast them in prison, lade them with yrons, pine them with famine […] 1549, John Cheke, The True Subiect to the Rebell, or, The Hurt of Sedition, Oxford, published 1641, page 23:

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