Diskindness

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    unkindness rare, uncountable
  2. 2
    An unkind act. countable, rare

    "1849 Southey's common-place book. Ed. by J.W. Warter To do another man a diskindness merely because he has done me one, serves to no good purpose, and to many ill ones."

Example

More examples

"1849 Southey's common-place book. Ed. by J.W. Warter To do another man a diskindness merely because he has done me one, serves to no good purpose, and to many ill ones."

Etymology

From dis- + kindness.

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