uncongratulating en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + congratulating.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not offering congratulations.
By the obscurity of a twinkling lamp, and amidst a handful of despised outcasts, already marked out and consigned to death, and in the uncongratulating silence of the midnight hour, the mighty step was accomplished.
1824, Felix Fontaine, The Christian Martyr: A Tale of the First Century for Youth, page 217: