"uncharity" meaning in English

See uncharity in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: uncharities [plural]
Etymology: From un- + charity. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|charity}} un- + charity Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} uncharity (usually uncountable, plural uncharities)
  1. Absence of charity. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: discharity, incharity, uncharitableness

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1881, James Payn, Some Private Views:",
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          "ref": "1908, E. F. Benson, The Blotting Book:",
          "text": "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 his heart and kindled his smile to think of one case at any rate where a youthful misdemeanour was lived down and forgotten.",
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