Unchildly
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Not childly.
"For the rest recourse must be had to what does not belong to human childhood: his brow must be made the seat of unchildly power and wisdom; he must wear the glance of prescience and the gesture of authority, even if he has not to sit on his mother’s knee as on a throne, and hold out his fingers in the solemnity of benediction."
Example
More examples"For the rest recourse must be had to what does not belong to human childhood: his brow must be made the seat of unchildly power and wisdom; he must wear the glance of prescience and the gesture of authority, even if he has not to sit on his mother’s knee as on a throne, and hold out his fingers in the solemnity of benediction."
Etymology
From un- + childly.
More for "unchildly"
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