uncharitablyadv.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈtʃarᵻtəbli/, U.S. /ˌənˈtʃɛrədəbli/ In an uncharitable manner; without charity.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adverb]
uncharitablyc1386
meanly1602
scurvily1616
meana1626
ungenerously1722
unsportinglya1974
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋626 If he repreue hym vncharitably of synne..thanne apperteneth that to the reioysynge of the deuel.
1529 Act 21 Hen. VIII c. 4 §1 The resydue of the same Executours uncharytably..have refused to intermedle..with the execucion of the said wyll.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. vij He vncharitably commaunded that no man..should once entreate him for the retourne of Henry nowe duke of Lancastre.
1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 147 He very uncharitably passeth them by.
1656 A. Cowley Life & Fame in Pindaric Odes iii We..wish uncharitably for them, To be as long a Dying as Methusalem.
1728 E. Haywood tr. M.-A. de Gomez Belle Assemblée (1732) II. 288 I know not..which of my Actions should make you judge so uncharitably of me.
1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus II. iv. 100 You speak but uncharitably of the reverend canon of St. Berthe's.
1860 R. C. Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey xi. 122 We pray that we may not speak uncharitably; but oh! let us pray that we may not think uncharitably.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
adv.c1386