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dispiteous

dispiteous adjective: not showing mercy or pity.

Adjective

dispiteous (comparative more dispiteous, superlative most dispiteous)

  1. (archaic, literary) Not showing mercy or pity.
    • […] these .ii. noble princes [wer] by treyterous tiranny taken & depriued of their estate, shortly shut vp in prison & priuely slain & murderd by yᵉ cruell ambicion of their vnnaturall vncle & dispiteous tourmentours […]c. 1460s, John Hardyng, “Rychard the third”, in The Chronicle of Ihon Hardyng in Metre, London: Richard Grafton, published 1543
    • How now, foolish rheum!
      Turning dispiteous torture out of door!
      I must be brief, lest resolution drop
      Out at mine eyes in tender womanish tears.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

dispiteous meaning in Tamil

dispiteous in Tamil

இரக்கமற்ற

Examples of dispiteous in a sentence

  • The dispiteous and humorous gods have spoken. […]”1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter 16, in Zuleika Dobson, New York: John Lane, published 1912, page 252:
  • Not that they hadn’t been affected by the dispiteous anarchism of the Cultural Revolution, but they lived in relative isolation.1997, Gretel Ehrlich, chapter 3, in Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist, Boston: Beacon Press, pages 72–73:

Synonyms of dispiteous

All synonyms of dispiteous

Forms of dispiteous

comparativemore dispiteous
superlativemost dispiteous

Origin of dispiteous

Variant of despiteous, later reanalysed as dis- + piteous.

Words formed from dispiteous

Questions about dispiteous

What does dispiteous mean?
Dispiteous means not showing mercy or pity.
What is dispiteous in Tamil?
Dispiteous in Tamil is இரக்கமற்ற. See Dispiteous meaning in Tamil.
How do you use dispiteous in a sentence?
The dispiteous and humorous gods have spoken. […]”
What part of speech is dispiteous?
Dispiteous is an adjective.

Words near dispiteous in the dictionary

  1. dispirous
  2. dispise
  3. dispised
  4. dispises
  5. dispising
  6. dispiteous
  7. dispiteously
  8. dispiteousness
  9. displacable
  10. displace
  11. displaceabilities

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