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unbelittling en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + belittling.

Meanings

1. (rare) Not belittling.
   • When people can no longer disagree intelligibly, a society disintegrates; where they need interpreters, they cannot either unite or emerge from conflict into unbelittling compromise. 1997, Frederic Raphael, The necessity of anti-semitism, page 87:
   • He is learned, dramatic, and unbelittling. Perhaps the gentleness and wisdom that come with age allow this man to teach as few are able. 1993, Clayton L. N. Robinson, J.C. Boileau Grant: anatomist extraordinary, page 111:

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