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Webster 1913 Edition


Unchristian

Un-chris′tian

,
Adj.
[Pref.
un-
not +
Christian
.]
1.
Not Christian; not converted to the Christian faith; infidel.
2.
Contrary to Christianity; not like or becoming a Christian;
as,
unchristian
conduct
.

Un-chris′tian

,
Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+
Christian
.]
To make unchristian.
[Obs.]
South.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unchristian

UNCHRIS'TIAN

, a.
1.
Contrary to the laws of christianity; as an unchristian reflection; unchristian temper or conduct.
2.
Not evangelized; not converted to the christian faith; infidel.

UNCHRIS'TIAN

,
Verb.
T.
To deprive of the constituent qualities of christianity.

Definition 2024


unchristian

unchristian

English

Adjective

unchristian (comparative more unchristian, superlative most unchristian)

  1. Not of the Christian faith.
  2. Not in accord with Christian principles; without Christian spirit, unbefitting a Christian.
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
      I hope I may never again be in a state of mind so unchristian as the mental frame in which I lived for some weeks, respecting the memory of Master B. [His bell rang] two nights out of three, until I conceived the happy idea of twisting Master B.‘s neck []
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 215:
      Arius [...] eventually died obscurely, reputedly as the result of an acute attack of dysentery in a latrine in Constantinople, which circumstance afforded his enemies some unchristian pleasure, and was eventually commemorated with exemplary lack of charity in the Orthodox liturgy.

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