different between unking vs unkind

English

Etymology

un- +? king

Verb

unking (third-person singular simple present unkings, present participle unkinging, simple past and past participle unkinged)

1. (archaic) To remove (a king) from power.

   Synonyms: depose, dethrone, discrown, disenthrone, uncrown, unthrone

   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act IV, Scene 1,^[1]

     God save King Harry, unking’d Richard says,

     And send him many years of sunshine days!

   • 1649, John Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, London, p. 28,^[2]

     […] the Scots were a free Nation, made King whom they freely chose, and with the same freedome un-Kingd him if they saw cause, by right of ancient laws and Ceremonies yet remaining,

   • 1754, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s-Inn Journal, No. 66, 19 January, 1754, in Volume 2, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 85,^[3]

     The jesting of his Fool wholly turns upon his unkinging himself and retaining nothing, which Lear minutely attends to,

   • 1850, Herman Melville, White-Jacket, Chapter 56,^[4]

     “Yes,” cried Jonathan; “that greenhorn, standing there by the Commodore, is sailing under false colours; he's an impostor, I say; he wears my crown.”

     “ […] I say, Jonathan, my lad, don’t pipe your eye now about the loss of your crown; for, look you, we all wear crowns, from our cradles to our graves, and though in double-darbies in the brig, the Commodore himself can’t unking us.”

2. (archaic) To deprive (a king) of his royal qualities.
   • 1665, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, London: Thomas Bennet, 1698, Volume 3, “A Sermon Preached At S^t Mary’s, Oxon. […] Christmas-Day, 1665,” p. 371,^[5]

     But if a Prince shall deign to be familiar and to converse with those upon whom he might trample, shall His condescension therefore Unking Him? And His familiarity rob Him of His Royalty?

   • 1677, Charles Davenant, Circe, London: Richard Tonson, Act III, Scene 6, p. 31,^[6]

     My swelling rage, in privacy I’le shrowd,

     And not un-King my self before the Crowd.

   • 1845, James Russell Lowell, Conversations on Some of the Old Poets, Cambridge, MA: John Owen, Third Conversation, p. 215,^[7]

     The soul is indifferent what garment she wears, or of what color and texture; the true king is not unkinged by being discrowned.

3. (archaic, figuratively) To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance.
   • 1638, John Suckling, Aglaura, London: Thomas Walkley, Act I, Scene 1, p. 9,^[8]

     —Oh ’tis well y’are come,

     there was within me fresh Rebellion,

     and reason was almost unking’d agen.

Coordinate terms

• unqueen

Anagrams

• nuking

English

Etymology

From un- +? kind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?ka?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Adjective

unkind (comparative unkinder or more unkind, superlative unkindest or most unkind)

1. Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful. [From mid-14thC.]
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2,^[1]

     Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!

     This was the most unkindest cut of all;

     For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,

     Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms,

     Quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mighty heart;

   • 1720, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, London: W. Bowyer and Bernard Lintott, Volume 6, Book 24, lines 968-971, p. 189,^[2]

     Yet was it ne’er my Fate, from thee to find

     A Deed ungentle, or a Word unkind:

     When others curst the Auth’ress of their Woe,

     Thy Pity check’d my Sorrows in their Flow:

   • 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Chapter 2,^[3]

     Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

   • 1950 July 3, Politicians Without Politics, Life, page 16,

     Despite the bursitis, Dewey got in a good round of golf, though his cautious game inspired a reporter to make one of the week?s unkindest remarks: “He plays golf like he plays politics — straight down the middle, and short.”

   • 1974, Laurence William Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse, 3rd Edition, page 175,

     We had to learn that to refuse such gifts, which represented serious sacrifice, was more unkind than to accept them.

   • 2000, Edward W. Said, On Lost Causes, in Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, page 540,

     In the strictness with which he holds this view he belongs in the company of the novelists I have cited, except that he is unkinder and less charitable than they are.

2. (obsolete) Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural. [From 13thC.]
   • 1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, London, Book 7, Chapter 33,^[4]

     […] A Feauer is an vnkinde heate, that commeth out of the heart, and passeth into all the members of the bodye, and grieueth the working of the bodye.

   • 1617, John Davies, Wits Bedlam, London, Epigram 116,^[5]

     Crowes will not feed their yong til 9. daies old,

     Because their vnkind colour makes them doubt

     Them to be theirs;

3. (obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,^[6]

     O, had thy mother borne so hard a mind,

     She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind.

Derived terms

• unkindest cut

Related terms

• unkindly
• unkindness

Anagrams

• Dunkin, nudnik