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unˈcharitable, a.
Also Sc. 5 uncheritable.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
Not charitable; lacking in charity: a. Of persons, etc.
1456Sir G. Haye Law of Armes (S.T.S.) 237 And rycht sa..gif thare war ane uncheritable prelate, quhilk war..a counsailour to mak were. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark xi. 71 b, With his frownyng browes, with his stately loke, with his contencious or vncharitable mouthe. 1592G. Harvey Four Lett. iii. Wks. (Grosart) I. 195 His conclusion, That the worlde was vncharitable, and he ordained to be miserable. 1646Crashaw Steps to Temple, Charity 58 What can the poore hope from us, when we bee Uncharitable ev'n to Charitie? 1673Lady's Call. i. i. §29 In this uncharitable age, things are apt to be denominated not from the greater but worser part. 1743J. Morris Serm. ii. 49 If he remains uncharitable he is utterly unfit for heaven. 1828Lytton Pelham III. iv, Why be so uncharitable to this poor and persecuted principle? 1880‘Ouida’ Moths III. 82 People are so horridly uncharitable.
absol.1837W. Irving Adv. Capt. Bonneville II. 191 The uncharitable were apt to surmise that he had, in the interim, been well used up in a buffalo hunt.
b. Of actions, feelings, etc.
a1631Donne Serm., Ps. li. 7 (1640) 640 An uncharitable condemning of other men. 1683D. A. Art Converse 22 With most uncharitable exaggerations of their least, or fancied misdemeanours. 1764Burn Poor Laws 137 It were an uncharitable action to relieve them in a course of idleness. 1814Wordsw. Excurs. vii. 775 Her uncharitable acts, I trust, And harsh unkindnesses are all forgiven. 1833H. Coleridge Lives Northerns 11 Marvell..never again uttered so uncharitable a surmise as that with regard to Morus. |