Meanings (ES + gloss)
despiadado
Having, or showing, no pity; merciless, ruthless.
Her clothes were torn to mere shreds and tatters, and through the pitiful rags her once white and tender skin showed raw and bleeding from contact with the thousand pitiless thorns…
O God! can I not save / One from the pitiless wave? / Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?
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