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English
Etymology
From dis- + charity.
Noun
discharity (uncountable)
- Lack of charity.
- Synonyms: incharity, uncharitableness, uncharity
- 1839, Henry Brougham, Letter to the Duke of Bedford in Letters and Speeches on Various Subjects, Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1840, Volume 1, p. 79,
- Lawgivers of England! Be well assured, that the contempt lavished for centuries upon the cabals of Constantinople will be as a token of respect compared with the loud shout of universal scorn which all mankind in all ages will send up against you, if you stand still and suffer the parent of all evil, all falsehood, all hypocrisy, all discharity, all self-seeking to stalk about the fold and lay waste its inmates
2008, Jonathan Gash, chapter 15, in Faces in the Pool, New York: Minotaur, published 2009, page 122:For sheer discharity I’d never known anyone like Donna. I had thought her elegant and sophisticated. Now, I saw cankerous malice in a destroyer.