Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of charity; uncharitableness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Uncharitableness.
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- noun Absence of
charity ;uncharitableness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But today reparation should be made for the petty uncharity of those who get exercised by the Lord's own practice.
Today... Joanna Bogle 2008
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Christian uncharity and contempt for all “men of God” save its own.
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I never see a face more full of malice and uncharity.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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Yet there is a certain justice in the inference that women are often most severely condemned by those who are no better than themselves; and this insincerity of uncharity is far more to be dreaded than the over-zeal of virtuous hearts, which oftenest helps and heals where it has been obliged to wound.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various
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Aurore now found herself in the hands of a woman of the people, ennobled for a time by beauty and a true affection, but sinking, her good inspiration gone, into the bitterest ill-temper and most vulgar uncharity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various
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The hater of uncharity is so given to love that no uncharity can enter into his life.
The Sayings Of Confucius 551 BC-479 BC Confucius
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The Master said, I have seen no one that loves love and hates uncharity.
The Sayings Of Confucius 551 BC-479 BC Confucius
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We should not confound uncharity with a sort of natural repugnance and antipathy, instinctive to some natures, betraying a weakness of character, if you will, but hardly what one could call a clearly defined fault.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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There was no brag or bounce about him, no hideousness of noise or mafficking, no hatred of foreigners or cruelty of uncharity, but a grim steadfastness of determination which meant that, so far as he might, Bates would do or die.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 Various
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Imagine us facing a wind from the east composed of steel filings and all uncharity.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917 Various
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