Discharity
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Lack of charity. uncountable
"1839, Henry Brougham, Letter to the Duke of Bedford in Letters and Speeches on Various Subjects, Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1840, Volume 1, p. 79, Lawgivers of England! […] Be well assured, that the contempt lavished for centuries upon the cabals of Constantinople […] will be as a token of respect compared with the loud shout of universal scorn which all mankind in all ages will send up against you, if you stand still and suffer […] the parent of all evil, all falsehood, all hypocrisy, all discharity, all self-seeking […] to stalk about the fold and lay waste its inmates […]"
Example
More examples"1839, Henry Brougham, Letter to the Duke of Bedford in Letters and Speeches on Various Subjects, Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1840, Volume 1, p. 79, Lawgivers of England! […] Be well assured, that the contempt lavished for centuries upon the cabals of Constantinople […] will be as a token of respect compared with the loud shout of universal scorn which all mankind in all ages will send up against you, if you stand still and suffer […] the parent of all evil, all falsehood, all hypocrisy, all discharity, all self-seeking […] to stalk about the fold and lay waste its inmates […]"
Etymology
From dis- + charity.
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