a. Also Sc. 5 uncheritable. (UN-1 7 b and 5 b.) Not charitable; lacking in charity: a. Of persons, etc.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law of Armes (S.T.S.), 237. And rycht sa … gif thare war ane uncheritable prelate, quhilk war … a counsailour to mak were.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Mark xi. 71 b. With his frownyng browes, with his stately loke, with his contencious or vncharitable mouthe.
1592. G. Harvey, Four Lett., iii. Wks. (Grosart), I. 195. His conclusion, That the worlde was vncharitable, and he ordained to be miserable.
1646. Crashaw, Steps to Temple, Charity, 58. What can the poore hope from us, when we bee Uncharitable ev’n to Charitie?
1673. Lady’s Call., I. i. § 29. In this uncharitable age, things are apt to be denominated not from the greater but worser part.
1743. J. Morris, Serm., ii. 49. If he remains uncharitable he is utterly unfit for heaven.
1828. Lytton, Pelham, III. iv. Why be so uncharitable to this poor and persecuted principle?
1880. ‘Ouida,’ Moths, III. 82. People are so horridly uncharitable.
absol. 1837. W. Irving, Adv. Capt. Bonneville, II. 191. The uncharitable were apt to surmise that he had, in the interim, been well used up in a buffalo hunt.
b. Of actions, feelings, etc.
a. 1631. Donne, Serm., Ps. li. 7 (1640), 640. An uncharitable condemning of other men.
1683. D. A., Art Converse, 22. With most uncharitable exaggerations of their least, or fancied misdemeanours.
1764. Burn, Poor Laws, 137. It were an uncharitable action to relieve them in a course of idleness.
1814. Wordsw., Excurs., VII. 775. Her uncharitable acts, I trust, And harsh unkindnesses are all forgiven.
1833. H. Coleridge, Lives Northerns, 11. Marvell … never again uttered so uncharitable a surmise as that with regard to Morus.
