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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unruth en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + ruth (“pity, compassion, mercy”).

Meanings

  1. (archaic, poetic, uncountable) A lack of ruth; mercilessness, pitilessness.
    • Whereat in a moment of cross unruth / He thought, "All right if you want the truth!" 1942, Robert Frost, “The Discovery Of The Madeiras”, in A Witness Tree: