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English
Etymology
From unpitiful + -ly.
Adverb
unpitifully (comparative more unpitifully, superlative most unpitifully)
- (archaic) pitilessly
1549, John Cheke, The True Subiect to the Rebell, or, The Hurt of Sedition, Oxford, published 1641, page 23: yee so unpittifully vex men, cast them in prison, lade them with yrons, pine them with famine
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Mistress Page. Trust me, he beat him most pitifully.
Mistress Ford. Nay, by the mass, that he did not; he beat him most unpitifully, methought.