unremorseless

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ remorseless (un- functions as an intensifier).

Adjective

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unremorseless (comparative more unremorseless, superlative most unremorseless)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Utterly remorseless.
    • a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, An Elegy on the Death of [] Richard Clarke:
      unremorseless Death
    • 1836-40, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker
      We are not free; we are slaves: one half of us is tyrants,—unremorseless, onfeelin', overbearin' tyrants, and vile usurpers; and the other half slaves []

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