English

Verb
unchilding

1. archaic present participle of|unchild Removing a child from a parent; disowning.

#:There is no unfathering Christ, and there is no unchilding us. from C. H. Spurgeon's His Name--The Everlasting Father (9 December 1866)

Adjective
unchilding

1. Archaic life-threatening, life-taking

#:Spins to the widow-making unchilding unfathering deeps. from Gerard Manley Hopkins' The Wreck of the Deutschland (1883?)
#:given him my whole attention and taken him away from the ruthless unchilding sea? from Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea (1978)

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