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incharity

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Compare French incharité.

Noun

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incharity (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Lack of charity.
    Synonyms: discharity, uncharitableness, uncharity
    • 1586, William Warner, Albions England Or Historicall Map of the Same Island[1], London: Thomas Cadman, Book 2:
      But least mine incharitie prooue lesse pardonable then his Iniurie, I that will not lyue to heare it so, hartily disclame to haue it so:
    • 1659, John Evelyn, A Character of England[2], London: Jo. Crooke, page 27:
      These, are the confidents, who can design the minute, the place and the means of their conversion: a Schism full of spiritual-disdain, incharity and high imposture, if any such there be on earth:
    • 1718, Daniel Defoe, A Vindication of the Press,[3]:
      [] I am oblig’d to take Notice, that the Authors of the Gown in general, treat the World with greater Insolence and Incharity, than any Lay-Persons whatsoever.