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Webster 1913 Edition
Unchristian
Un-chris′tian
,Adj.
[Pref.
un-
not + Christian
.] 1.
Not Christian; not converted to the Christian faith; infidel.
2.
Contrary to Christianity; not like or becoming a Christian;
as,
. unchristian
conductUn-chris′tian
,Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+ Christian
.] To make unchristian.
[Obs.]
South.
Webster 1828 Edition
Unchristian
UNCHRIS'TIAN
, a.1.
Contrary to the laws of christianity; as an unchristian reflection; unchristian temper or conduct.2.
Not evangelized; not converted to the christian faith; infidel.UNCHRIS'TIAN
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2025
unchristian
unchristian
English
Adjective
unchristian (comparative more unchristian, superlative most unchristian)
- Not of the Christian faith.
- Not in accord with Christian principles; without Christian spirit, unbefitting a Christian.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
- I hope I may never again be in a state of mind so unchristian as the mental frame in which I lived for some weeks, respecting the memory of Master B. [His bell rang] two nights out of three, until I conceived the happy idea of twisting Master B.‘s neck […]
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 215:
- Arius [...] eventually died obscurely, reputedly as the result of an acute attack of dysentery in a latrine in Constantinople, which circumstance afforded his enemies some unchristian pleasure, and was eventually commemorated with exemplary lack of charity in the Orthodox liturgy.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
Translations
not of the Christian faith
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