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Definition of Merciless

1. Adjective. Having or showing no mercy. "Gave him a merciless beating"

Definition of Merciless

1. a. Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves.

Definition of Merciless

1. Adjective. showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless ¹

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Definition of Merciless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Merciless

Literary usage of Merciless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Literary Middle English Reader by Albert Stanburrough Cook (1915)
"CHAUCER, merciless BEAUTY ... merciless BEAUTY The first of a sequence of three roundels. From MS. Camb. Magd. Coll. Pepys 2006. ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Seo mercu- She hauled me to the wash-stand, Inflicted a merciless, hut happily brief ... The quality of being merciless ; want of mercy or pity. mercilessly ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... because of the merciless way in which he smote the enemy. But notwithstanding the almost exclusively warlike character of his reign, Charles Martel was ..."

4. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third by Thomas Erskine May (1899)
"The common law was guiltless of this severity ; but as the country advanced in wealth, lawgivers grew merciless to criminals. Life was held cheap, ..."

5. Some Longer Elizabethan Poems by Arthur Henry Bullen (1903)
"With the Causes of the scar city and misery of the want hereof, in these hard and merciless Times. jlS ALSO How to save it in our diet, apparel, recreations ..."

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