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unˈgratefulness
[un-1 12 and 5 b.]
1. = ingratitude 1.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 20 They goe very neer to vngratfulnes, to seek to deface that which..hath been the first light-giuer to ignorance. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 247 Those graces and blessings, which vngratefulnesse would not acknowledge. 1631Gouge God's Arrows i. §20. 27 O the ungratefulnesse of the wicked in the world! 1734T. Chalkley Jrnl. Wks. (1766) 271 A Youth..went out hastily..as I was showing the Ungratefulness of the first [sc. disobedience], much more of the last. 1896Cincinnati (Ohio) Sunday Sch. Jrnl. Apr. 237/1 The ungratefulness of people to those who have helped them.
2. Unpleasantness; disagreeableness. rare.
a1680Glanvill in Disc., Serm., & Rem. (1681) 338 He (considering the ungratefulness of the Message..) diverts another way, and flees towards Tarshish. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 54 The Gratefulness and Ungratefulness of Tastes and Smells. |