unmercifulness
- a word derived from unmerciful.
Example Sentences
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There appears to be traceable also a feeling of a special, though less painful, kind against unmercifulness.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil
And then he laid bare sin after sin—avarice, evil-speaking, wrongs wrought, wrongs unforgiven, injustice, envy, unmercifulness, pride, selfishness in all its disguises—until heart after heart felt itself seen through and laid bare.
From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
There is an element of unmercifulness in the candour of La Rochefoucauld which is distressing to sentimentalists.
From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Gosse, Edmund
What awful woe of sudden unprotectedness when life exists only through protection—what piteous panic in the midst of black unmercifulness, inarticulate sound howsoever wildly shrill can neither explain nor express.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
When charity goes away, these wild and savage beasts of darkness come forth, viz. bitter envying and strife, rigid censuring and judging, unmercifulness and implacableness of spirit upon others' failings and offences.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
