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Mercilessness

noun
1.
Feelings of extreme heartlessness.  Synonyms: cruelty, pitilessness, ruthlessness.
2.
Inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving.  Synonym: unmercifulness.






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"Mercilessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... or to be loved by you. He is already braving you with his tiny breath, this little one that I am holding in my maternal grasp.' She was terrible. At first, I had seen her as an angel of goodness. Now, although she had not changed, she was like an angel of mercilessness and vengeance. I saw a sort of hatred for those who would trouble him distort her face, resplendent with superhuman maternity. Her cruel heart was full of one heart only. It foresaw sin and shame. It hated men ...
— The Inferno • Henri Barbusse

... all did call her Mistress Merciless; but her mercilessness was of a sweet, persuasive kind: for with the beauty of her face and the music of her voice and the exceeding sweetness of her virtues was she wont to slay all hearts; and this she did unwittingly, for she was a little child. And so it was in love ...
— The Holy Cross and Other Tales • Eugene Field



Words linked to "Mercilessness" :   inexorableness, merciless, mercifulness, relentlessness, unmercifulness, inexorability, ruthlessness, hardheartedness, cruelty, inhumaneness, pitilessness, inhumanity, heartlessness, coldheartedness



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