adv. [UN-1 11 b.] In an uncharitable manner; without charity.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Pars. T., ¶ 626. If he repreue hym vncharitably of synne … thanne apperteneth that to the reioysynge of the deuel.

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1529.  Act 21 Hen. VIII., c. 4 § 1. The resydue of the same Executours uncharytably … have refused to intermedle … with the execucion of the said wyll.

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a. 1548.  Hall, Chron., Hen. IV., 7. He uncharitably commaunded that no man … should once entreate him for the retourne of Henry nowe duke of Lancastre.

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1624.  Gataker, Transubst., 147. He very uncharitably passeth them by.

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1656.  Cowley, Pindar. Odes, Life, iii. We … wish uncharitably for them, To be as long a Dying as Methusalem.

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1728.  Eliza Heywood, trans. Mme. de Gomez’s Belle A. (1732), II. 288. I know not … which of my Actions should make you judge so uncharitably of me.

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1831.  G. P. R. James, Phil. Augustus, II. iv. You speak but uncharitably of the reverend canon of St. Berthe’s.

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1860.  Trench, Serm. in Westm. Abb., xi. 122. We pray that we may not speak uncharitably; but oh! let us pray that we may not think uncharitably.

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