Impiteous
Origin
From .
Full definition of impiteous
Adjective
impiteous
- (obsolete) Not showing pity or mercy.
- 1547, Arthur Kelton, A Chronycle with a Genealogie Declaryng That the Brittons and Welshemen are Linealiye Dyscended from Brute, London: Richard Grafton, http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04786.0001.001... cruell UalerianUoide of all fauoure, most impiteousOf Emperoures all, none more vngraciousAgainst Christes faithe,
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Hamlet in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, ActII, Scene2 Scene5,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11954.0001.001The Ocean (ouer-peering of his List)Eates not the Flats with more impittious hasteThen young Laertes, in a Riotous head,Ore-beares your Officers,
- 1878, John Addington Symonds (translator), “Sonnet XXIII. The Modern Cupid†by Tommaso Campanella, in The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella, London: Smith, Elder, p.141,https://archive.org/details/sonnetsofmichael00michrichThrough full three thousand years the world reveresBlind Love that bears the quiver and hath wings:Now too he’s deaf, and to the sufferingsOf folk in anguish turns impiteous ears.