unbelittling

English

Etymology

un- +‎ belittling

Adjective

unbelittling (comparative more unbelittling, superlative most unbelittling)

  1. (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.
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