unbelittling
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + belittling.
Adjective
[edit]unbelittling (comparative more unbelittling, superlative most unbelittling)
- (rare) Not belittling.
- 1997, Frederic Raphael, The necessity of anti-semitism, page 87:
- When people can no longer disagree intelligibly, a society disintegrates; where they need interpreters, they cannot either unite or emerge from conflict into unbelittling compromise.
- 1993, Clayton L. N. Robinson, J.C. Boileau Grant: anatomist extraordinary, page 111:
- He is learned, dramatic, and unbelittling. Perhaps the gentleness and wisdom that come with age allow this man to teach as few are able.