lack-pity

English

Etymology

lack +‎ pity

Adjective

lack-pity (comparative more lack-pity, superlative most lack-pity)

  1. merciless; pitiless
    • 1881, Christina Rossetti, “An Old-World Thicket”, in A Pageant and Other Poems‎, page 122:
      Each sore defeat of my defeated life / Faced and outfaced me in that bitter hour; / And turned to yearning palsy all my power, / And all my peace to strife, / Self stabbing self with keen lack-pity knife.
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