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English
Etymology
Compare French incharité.
Noun
incharity (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Lack of charity.
- Synonyms: discharity, uncharitableness, uncharity
1586, William Warner, Albions England Or Historicall Map of the Same Island, London: Thomas Cadman, Book 2:But least mine incharitie prooue lesse pardonable then his Iniurie, I that will not lyue to heare it so, hartily disclame to haue it so:
1659, John Evelyn, A Character of England, London: Jo. Crooke, page 27:These, are the confidents, who can design the minute, the place and the means of their conversion: a Schism full of spiritual-disdain, incharity and high imposture, if any such there be on earth:
1718, Daniel Defoe, A Vindication of the Press,:[…] I am oblig’d to take Notice, that the Authors of the Gown in general, treat the World with greater Insolence and Incharity, than any Lay-Persons whatsoever.