unmercied

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ mercy +‎ -ed.

Adjective[edit]

unmercied (comparative more unmercied, superlative most unmercied)

  1. (obsolete) unmerciful; merciless
    • 1627, Michael Drayton, The Miseries of Queen Margaret, published 1793, page 159:
      Out fly the Irish, and with sword and fire
      Unmercied havoc of the English made

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unmercied”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)