un-christianly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
adj
Example Sentences
- "Unſavory and rotten, impertinent and ſilly, G. F. fallaciouſly, moſt un-Chriſtianly and impiouſly, &c."
- "A struggle for the remote control turned most un-Christianly violent and Mr Makoeya’s wife and children ended up beating him to death."
- "With the queen revealed as a menstruating Moon-woman, and with her private life exposed to such blatant public scrutiny, few good Christians could fail to notice how un-Christianly childless she was in a world where woman is to be “saved by her childbearing.”"
- "All my interest here was at stake last night for furnishing the person I sent over with 10l., for under that he would not go, alleging the danger of their un-Christianly imprisonment, and the uncertainty of the place of their rendezvous, for I ordered him to find them wherever they are, if on their own coasts."
- "“[…] But to apply, as is often done, the permissive ‘let him depart’ also to such marriages as are Christian on both sides—the one departing being an un-Christianly-minded Christian—is exegetically inadmissible, seeing that ‘the rest’ who are here spoken of constitute the specific category of mixed marriages” (Meyer)."
- "I found out to my sorrow what his administration meant a year ago, and also the un-Christianly spirit of the controlling faction in the conference."
Etymology
From un-Christian + -ly.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
- Suffix: un-Christian
Inflected Forms
more un-Christianly (comparative)
most un-Christianly (superlative)