unremorseless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + remorseless (un- functions as an intensifier).
Adjective
[edit]unremorseless (comparative more unremorseless, superlative most unremorseless)
- (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 […]
References
[edit]- “unremorseless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.