[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality or character of being uncharitable.
1548–9. (Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Litany. From enuy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitablenes, Good lorde, deliuer us.
1581. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 35. The morrall common places of vncharitablenes, and humblenes.
1641. Smectymnuus, Answ., § 18 (1653), 74. It is no unusuall thing with the Prelats … to charge such as protest … with uncharitablenes and Schisme.
1653. Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year, Winter, ii. 17. The uncharitablenesse of men towards his poor.
1719. Waterland, Christ’s Div. Vind., 418. There’s no uncharitableness in believing, that He gives us at least his own true meaning.
1836. Hor. Smith, Tin Trump. (1876), 193. Those outpourings of envy or uncharitableness which inevitably harden the heart.
1867. Augusta Wilson, Vashti, xxi. I never before heard you utter sentiments that trenched so closely upon harsh uncharitableness.
