un-Christianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more un-Christianly
form: most un-Christianly
Etymology: From un- + Christianly.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1897 [1672 May 5 (Gregorian calendar)], “S.P. Dom., Car. II. 306, No. 84”, in F[rancis] H[enry] Blackburne Daniell, editor, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, December 1671 to May 17th 1672. […], London: […] [F]or Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, […], →OCLC, page 377:
text: “[…] 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).
ref: 1897, Henry E[yster] Jacobs, George Frederick Spieker, Carl A[aron] Swensson, Annotations on the Epistles of Paul to I. Corinthians VII.–XVI., II. Corinthians and Galatians (The Lutheran Commentary […]; VIII), New York, N.Y.: The Christian Literature Co., →OCLC, I. Corinthians 7:15, page 12:
text: 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.
ref: 1905 November 26, W. W. Wadsworth, quotee, “Dr. W. W. Wadsworth Likens Himself to Joseph and the Accusing Woman to Potiphar’s Wife […]”, in Clark Howell, editor, The Atlanta Constitution, volume XXXVIII, number 164, Atlanta, Ga.: Constitution Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, section D, page 2, column 2:
text: We did not take an active part in the convention over the charter, but most of our members sat quietly by and watched with eagerness and earnestness the unparliamentary, the un-Christianly, the unreasonable and the unmanly attacks that were attempted upon the brethren of the convention.
ref: 1916, National Baptist Publishing Board, meeting of the National Baptist Convention of America, Unincorporated; quoted in Bobby L. Lovett, “The NBPB and the National Baptist Convention, 1906-1915”, in A Black Man’s Dream: The First 100 Years: Richard Henry Boyd and the National Baptist Publishing Board, [Jacksonville, Fla.?]: Mega Corporation, 1993, →ISBN, page 111:
text: “[…] He’s told me you are a Christian, and you even read your Bible on a regular basis. I see it, right over there.” / His expression became serious. “I am . . . and I do. But I don’t see how that should concern you. Have I acted in an un-Christianly manner somehow?” / “No, sir. You have been a remarkable demonstration of Christian care and service to us the entire time.”
ref: 2011, Dan Walsh, chapter 24, in The Deepest Waters: A Novel, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Revell, →ISBN, pages 124–125:
text: The stylistic text makes slanderous charges against her, alleging much un-Christianly behavior.
ref: 2017 July 17, Scott Johnson, “Istanbul”, in Heartstrings in B-flat Minor, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: Alternative form of unchristianly.