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unchilding
unchilding
English
Verb
unchilding
- (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
- (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)