From im- + piteous. <span class="searchmatch">impiteous</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">impiteous</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">impiteous</span>) (obsolete) Not showing pity or mercy. Synonyms: cruel, pitiless...
Alexander”, in Diminutive Dramas[2], London: Constable, page 36: […] Sleep, <span class="searchmatch">impiteous</span> sleep, / Unmitigable, uncorruptible gaoler, / Come, cloak my senses with...
dispiteous) (archaic, literary) Not showing mercy or pity. Synonyms: cruel, <span class="searchmatch">impiteous</span>, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, unpitying c. 1460s, John Hardyng, “Rychard...
Taylering, or rather indeed a Botching, for I made most piteous Work of it. dispiteous <span class="searchmatch">impiteous</span> piteously pitiable pitiful pitisome pitiful poustie...