unchristianly

See also: un-Christianly

English

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From unchristian +‎ -ly.[1]

Adverb

unchristianly (comparative more unchristianly, superlative most unchristianly)

  1. In an unchristian way.
Translations

Etymology 2

From un- +‎ Christianly.[2]

Adjective

unchristianly (comparative more unchristianly, superlative most unchristianly)

  1. Unchristian.
    • 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC, page 42:
      [I]f he perſiſt to be otherwiſe opinion’d, let him well adviſe, left thinking to gripe faſt the Goſpel, he be found in ſtead with the canon law in his fiſt: boiſtrous edicts tyrannizing the bleſſed ordinance of mariage into the quality of a moſt unnatural and unchriſtianly yoke, […]

References

  1. ^ “unchristianly, adv.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^ “unchristianly, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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