unchilding

English

Verb

unchilding

  1. (archaic) present participle and gerund of unchild (“to removing a child from a parent; to disown”)
    • 1866, C. H. Spurgeon, His Name — The Everlasting Father:
      There is no unfathering Christ, and there is no unchilding us.

Adjective

unchilding (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Life-threatening, life-taking.
    • 1875–1876, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Wreck of the Deutschland”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, part 2, stanza 13, page 15:
      Wiry and white-fiery and whirlwind-swivellèd snow / Spins to the widow-making unchilding unfathering deeps.
    • 1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea:
      […] given him my whole attention and taken him away from the ruthless unchilding sea?
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