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† unˈgrate, a. and n. Obs.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
1. Unpleasant, disagreeable; = ingrate a. 1.
1550Crowley Inform. & Petit. 469 To passe ouer the days of theyr youth in vngrate seruitude. 1646R. Baillie Lett. (Bann. Cl.) II. 364 It's a marvell to me if these men should allwayes prosper, their wayes are so impious, unjust, ungrate, and every way hatefull. 1656Artif. Handsom. 46 Impertinent and ungrate must that superstition be.
2. a. Ungrateful; = ingrate a. 3. (In later use chiefly Sc.)
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII, 12 Kyng Henry..thought it..necessary..to forgett the vngrate offence agaynst the duke of Briteyne commytted. Ibid. 26 b, So vngrate people were they to their souereigne lorde. 1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. (1577) C vi, To discouer the deceytes of an ungrate woman, who..neuer agreeth hir tong wyth hyr minde. 1606Marston Sophonisba ii. ii, But, Carthage, fie! It cannot be ungrate, faithlesse through feare. 1697G. Keith 2nd Narr. Proc. Turner's Hall 6 Judge..whether they be not a very ungrate People. 1720A. Petrie Rules Good Deportm. (1877) 24 It is rude and ungrate to leave a House..without your taking Leave of the Master and Mistress. 1767W. Meston Poems 196 Ye Muses, who were never yet ungrate, When you your benefactors deed relate.
arch.1922Joyce Ulysses 394 The men of the island, seeing no help was toward as the ungrate women were all of one mind, made a wherry raft.
b. n. An ungrateful person; an ingrate.
c1400Destr. Troy 13944 Þan he..told hym full tyte, þat Telagon he was, His son,..Þat þou gate on þi gamyn, as vngrate felle. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 122 A murthirer, a dum, or vngrate to his parents. 1689Gt. Bastard, Protector of Little One 5 It was indeed the true Motive that induc'd this Vngrate to ruin them. 1720–1Lett. fr. Mist's Jrnl. (1722) II. 118 The Sweetness of my Lips, which that Ungrate too oft has praised. |