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 .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective ruthless in competition
Etymologies
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Examples
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Miserable men commiserate not themselves, bowelless unto themselves, and merciless unto their own bowels.
Letter to a Friend 2007
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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
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Emperor Charles V. and, so, half-brother to the bowelless King Philip
The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Rafael Sabatini 1912
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Miserable men commiserate not themselves, bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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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
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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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