Adjective
Not showing pity or mercy.
Usage- Obsolete
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[…] cruell Ualerian Uoide of all fauoure, most impiteous Of Emperoures all, none more vngracious Against Christes faithe,
The Ocean (ouer-peering of his List) Eates not the Flats with more impittious haste Then young Laertes, in a Riotous head, Ore-beares your Officers,
More examples (1)
Through full three thousand years the world reveres Blind Love that bears the quiver and hath wings: Now too he’s deaf, and to the sufferings Of folk in anguish turns impiteous ears.