Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (18701938). Rogets International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers | Section III. Sympathetic Affections | 3. Special Sympathetic Affections |
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914a. Pitilessness. |
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NOUN: | PITILESSNESS &c. adj.; inclemency, inexorability, inflexibility, incompassion [rare], hardness of heart; want of pity [See Pity]; severity [See Severity]; malevolence [See Malevolence].
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VERB: | BE PITILESS &c. adj.; turn a deaf ear to; claim ones pound of flesh [M. of Ve]; have no -, shut the gates of- mercy [See Pity]; give no quarter.
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ADJECTIVE: | PITILESS, merciless, ruthless, bowelless; unpitying, unmerciful, inclement; grim-faced, grim-visaged; un- compassionate, incompassionate [rare], uncompassioned; inflexible, relentless, inexorable; unrelenting [See Revenge]; harsh [See Severity]; cruel [See Malevolence].
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