Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without tenderness or pity; unfeeling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Without pity.

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  • adjective obsolete Without pity.

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  • adjective ruthless in competition

Etymologies

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bowel +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Miserable men commiserate not themselves, bowelless unto themselves, and merciless unto their own bowels.

    Letter to a Friend 2007

  • Thief and pirate should he prove henceforth; no more nor less; as bowelless, as remorseless, as all those others who had deserved those names.

    Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Emperor Charles V. and, so, half-brother to the bowelless King Philip

    The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • He breathed fierce and honest anathema on the heads of the bowelless fiends who had abandoned the babe to its doom.

    The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol William John Locke 1896

  • I did avoid a critical personal examination into my character by that bowelless committee, but I referred to all the people of high standing I could think of in the community who would be least likely to know anything about me.

    The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872

  • I did avoid a critical personal examination into my character by that bowelless committee, but I referred to all the people of high standing I could think of in the community who would be least likely to know anything about me.

    The Innocents Abroad — Volume 01 Mark Twain 1872

  • I did avoid a critical personal examination into my character, by that bowelless committee, but I referred to all the people of high standing I could think of in the community who would be least likely to know any thing about me.

    The innocents abroad, or, The new Pilgrim's progress 1869

  • Miserable men commiserate not themselves, bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

    Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

  • But this is not thy doing: the bowelless fiend sends thee, poor simple girl, to me with this bait.

    The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

  • The young man followed, and in the next moment found himself in the bowelless body of the tree itself; into which, on the side of the encampment, both light and sound were admitted by a small aperture formed by the natural decay of the wood.

    Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) John Richardson 1824

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