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uncharity

uncharity noun: absence of charity.

Noun

uncharity (usually uncountable, plural uncharities)

  1. (usually) Absence of charity.
    • There are, indeed, many who have a special facility for languages, but in their case (with a few exceptions) one may say without uncharity that the acquisition of ideas is not their object, though if they did acquire them they would probably be new ones.1881, James Payn, Some Private Views
    • Kindly and charitable all through and ever eager to draw out the good in everybody and forgive the bad, Mr. Taynton had often occasion to deplore the hardness and uncharity of a world which remembers youthful errors and hangs them, like a mill-stone, round the neck of the offender, and it warmed...1908, E. F. Benson, The Blotting Book

Synonyms of uncharity

Forms of uncharity

pluraluncharities

Origin of uncharity

From un- + charity.

Questions about uncharity

What does uncharity mean?
Uncharity means absence of charity.
What part of speech is uncharity?
Uncharity is a noun.
What is the plural of uncharity?
The plural of uncharity is uncharities.

Words near uncharity in the dictionary

  1. uncharismatically
  2. uncharitable
  3. uncharitableness
  4. uncharitably
  5. uncharities
  6. uncharity
  7. uncharm
  8. uncharmable
  9. uncharmed
  10. uncharming
  11. uncharms

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