unchilding
adj1
Archaic Life-threatening, life-taking.
- Wiry and white-fiery and whirlwind-swivellèd snow / Spins to the widow-making unchilding unfathering deeps.1875–1876, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Wreck of the Deutschland”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, part 2, stanza 13, page 15:
- […] given him my whole attention and taken him away from the ruthless unchilding sea?1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea: