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▪ I. unˈhuman, a.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
1. Inhuman, inhumane, unmerciful, cruel:
a. Of actions, etc.
α1549Compl. Scot. xiv. 119 Ther for ȝe hef committit ane onhumain act. 1605London Prodigal iii. ii. 185 That were vnchristian, and an vnhumane part. 1622in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1908) II. 18 They..have..committed such unhumaine acts in murtheringe all they take. a1660Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) I. 251 Unnaturall lust and unhumane crueltie.
β1646Hammond Tracts Pref., Not only the most unchristian but unhuman practices. a1716South Serm. (1744) XI. ii. 39 Their insatiable avarice, and their unhuman and remorseless cruelty. 1796M. Robinson Angelina III. 373 Against parental authority so unhuman, nature has some plea. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 36 A one-sided, unhuman, unworthy and altogether false assertion.
b. Of persons.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xxxv. §5. 136 He was flaied aliue by direction of this vnhumane King. 1663South Serm. (1717) V. 101 Bleeding and dying at the Feet of Bloody, Unhuman Miscreants. 1700Rycaut Hist. Turks 333/2 That insolent and unhumane Robber. 1749Fielding Tom Jones vi. xi, All agreed that he was sent away pennyless..from the house of his unhuman father.
2. Not limited by human qualities or conditions; superhuman.
1782F. Burney Let. 6 Apr., [They] are neither plunged in the depths of misery, nor exalted to unhuman happiness. 1855Card. Wiseman Fabiola i. ix. 49 Converted..by some means, so unhuman, so divine, as we shall never..forecast. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 100 This divorce between the virtues of daily life and certain other virtues which are unhuman. 1874H. Rogers Orig. Bible ii. 70 An argument for the unhuman character of the project.
3. Not pertaining to mankind.
1861W. James Let. Sept. (1920) I. 38, I have noticed fleeting shades of expression on her face..unhuman, ghoul-like, fiendish-cunning. 1885G. Allen Darwin vii. 120 These curious and almost unhuman-looking objects [sc. palæolithic implements]. 1885R. L. & F. Stevenson Dynamiter 153 ‘How is this?’ he cried, in a sharp, unhuman voice. ‘Am I blind?’
Hence unˈhumanness.
1885L. Oliphant Sympneumata 275 The stamp of unhumanness which clings to the acts and operations of success.
▪ II. unˈhuman, v.
[un-2 6 a.]
trans. To make unhuman.
1648Earl Westmoreld. Otia Sacra 129 And yet (as if unhuman'd) we By no means with each other can agree. |