unchristian

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From un- +‎ Christian.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ʌnˈkɹɪstɪən/

[edit] Adjective

unchristian (comparative more unchristian, superlative most unchristian)

  1. Not of the Christian faith.
  2. Not in accord with Christian principles; without Christian spirit, unbefitting a Christian.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 215:
      Arius [...] eventually died obscurely, reputedly as the result of an acute attack of dysentery in a latrine in Constantinople, which circumstance afforded his enemies some unchristian pleasure, and was eventually commemorated with exemplary lack of charity in the Orthodox liturgy.
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