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† unˈcourtesy Obs.
[un-1 12. Cf. ON. úkurteisi.]
Discourtesy, incivility.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 2058 ‘Mahoun,’ quaþ sche, ‘ȝyue þe schame for þyn oncortesye!’ c1400Rom. Rose 3587, I wole in no wise..Denye that ye haue asked heere; It were to gret uncurtesie. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. iii. 151 Thou art to be excusid of vncurtesie bi thi greet folie and madnes. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cvii. 129 Certaynly cosyn, ye haue done me great vncourtesy, to fight with our ennemyes without me. 1569Newton Cicero's Olde Age 4 Unbrideled insolencie, and blunt uncurtesie. 16051st Pt. Jeronimo ii. iii. 97 Your wife condemns you of a vncurtesie. |