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unchilding

unchilding

English

Verb

unchilding

  1. (archaic) present participle of unchild Removing a child from a parent; disowning.
    There is no unfathering Christ, and there is no unchilding us. from C. H. Spurgeon's His Name--The Everlasting Father (9 December 1866)

Adjective

unchilding

  1. (archaic) life-threatening, life-taking
    Spins to the widow-making unchilding unfathering deeps. from Gerard Manley Hopkins' The Wreck of the Deutschland (1883?)
    given him my whole attention and taken him away from the ruthless unchilding sea? from Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea (1978)