unchilding

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adjective

Life-threatening, life-taking.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

verb
  1. archaicgerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of unchild (“to removing a child from a parent; to disown”)

    There is no unfathering Christ, and there is no unchilding us.

    1866, C. H. Spurgeon, His Name — The Everlasting Father
adjectiveunchilding (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableLife-threatening, life-taking.

    […] given him my whole attention and taken him away from the ruthless unchilding sea?

    1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
    1 more example

    Wiry and white-fiery and whirlwind-swivellèd snow / Spins to the widow-making unchilding unfathering deeps.

    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
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APA

unchilding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unchilding

MLA

“unchilding.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unchilding. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unchilding,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unchilding.

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