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unchilding en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (archaic, not-comparable) Life-threatening, life-taking.
   • Wiry and white-fiery and whirlwind-swivellèd snow / Spins to the widow-making unchilding unfathering deeps. 1875–1876, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Wreck of the Deutschland”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, part 2, stanza 13, page 15:
   • […] given him my whole attention and taken him away from the ruthless unchilding sea? 1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea:

unchilding en · VERB

Meanings

1. (archaic, form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of unchild (“to removing a child from a parent; to disown”)
   form of unchild
   • There is no unfathering Christ, and there is no unchilding us. 1866, C. H. Spurgeon, His Name — The Everlasting Father: