Bowelless
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Bowelless is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Without pity.
Meaning
(obsolete) Without pity.
Example Sentences
If avarice be thy vice, yet make it not thy punishment. Miserable men commiserate not themselves, bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.
1792, “Louis XIV,” The European Magazine and London Review, Volume 22, July 1792, p. 8, On his coffin at St. Denis, by the side of which stands the urn that contains his bowels, some one wrote, C’y gyst sans entrailles, Comme il etoit à Versailles. What little change in men by death is made! Louis the Great here bowelless is laid; Such as he play’d the tyrant’s lofty part At proud Versailles, and liv’d without a heart.
Synonyms for bowelless
Depending on context, synonyms include pitiless, remorseless, spiteful, barbarous, brutal, compassionless.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unmerciful, merciless, fierce, cutthroat, browless, unpitiful.
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