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ingratitude|ɪnˈgrætɪtjuːd|
[a. F. ingratitude (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. late L. ingrātitūdo ingratitude, displeasure, n. of quality f. ingrātus ingrate; cf. gratitude.]
1. Want or absence of gratitude; indisposition to acknowledge or reciprocate benefits received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness.
[a1225Ancr. R. 200 Ingratitudo: þesne kundel bret, hwose nis nout icnowen of goddedde, auh telleð lutel þerof, oðer uorȝiteð mid alle.] 1340Ayenb. 18 A vice þet is y-cleped ine clergie: ingratitude: þet is uoryetinge of god and of his guodes. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 1 To sette a parte alle ingratitude. 1531Elyot Gov. ii. xiii, The moste damnable vice and moste agayne iustice, in myne oppinion, is ingratitude, commenly called unkyndnesse..He is unkynde whiche denieth to haue receyued any benefite that in dede he hath receyued. 1607Shakes. Cor. ii. iii. 10 Ingratitude is monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingratefull, were to make a Monster of the multitude. 1675South Serm. (1737) I. xi. 413. 1796 Burke Let. Noble Ld. Wks. VIII. 51 Ingratitude to benefactors is the first of revolutionary virtues. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. xv. 252 There is perhaps no fault that men think more monstrous in other people than ingratitude.
†2. Unpleasant feeling, disagreeableness (between persons); unfriendliness, unkindness. Obs.
c1477Caxton Jason 41 They ben unkinde and full of ingratitude..yf they knewe ony thing wherwith they might dishonoure them they wolde do hit. 1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 13 b, Least it should sowe or kyndle any dissencion or ingratitude betwene the Frenche kyng and him. 1555Eden Decades 232 marg., The ingrati[t]ude of the Portugales. c1566J. Alday tr. Boaystuau's Theat. World E v, There is prepared for him [the child] new sorrow, by the ingratitude of mothers, which are so delicate..that they will not nourish them. |