单词 | ungraciously |
释义 | ungraciouslyadv. a. With ill fortune; unfortunately, unhappily. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adverb] evil971 unsellyc1275 chancefully1303 wrother-heala1325 badlyc1325 illc1325 ungraciouslyc1330 unhappilyc1374 evil haila1400 infortunately1442 shame to saya1450 ill haila1500 unluckily1530 unfortunately1548 unluckly1573 bad1575 haplessly1582 disasterly1593 lucklessly1596 untowardly1649 misfortunatelya1686 askew1858 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 223 To Chestrefeld ilkon þei com vngratiously. Þe kyng did þam spie.., assailed þam in þe toun. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 193 Eiþer of hem hadde hymself so ungraciousliche, þat me woste nevere wheþer of hem hadde worse spede. a1533 J. Frith in Test. W. Tracie (1535) sig. Cvjv And verely the iudgement of this cawse came owte of ceasone and euen vngracyouslye vnto our Canonistes. 1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 454 We have learned of thee, how ungraciously [L. infeliciter] we be born of the first Adam. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adverb] > severely sorelyOE sorec1000 shrewdlyc1440 ungraciouslya1525 a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 840 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 121 He cryid allace.. I am vngraciously gorrit baith guttis & gall. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Giiv Some rybbys of the motton be so ranke That they wyll fyre one vngracyously in the flanke. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil and graceless > [adverb] ungraciously1377 gracelesslyc1450 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [adverb] > without grace or lost to virtue ungraciously1377 gracelesslyc1450 deperditely1608 perditlya1632 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 129 Þis þat with gyle was geten, vngraciouslich is spended. a1400 Partonope 6432 ‘Allas,’ þoȝte he, ‘howe vn-gracyously To my loue haue I gouerned me!’ a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Giii And so vngracyously thy dayes thou hast spent That thou arte not worthy to loke god in the face. 1583 A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion sig. F2 Hee hath most vngratiously broken the vowe made to God in Baptisme. 1645 T. Gataker Gods Eye on Israel 44 Tho they ungratiously and ungratefully..demand of him, wherein he had loved them. 3. Not with a good grace; not pleasantly or agreeably. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adverb] > ungraciously slenderly1598 disgraciously1618 ungraciously1664 1664 Bp. J. Taylor Disswasive from Popery ii. iv. 99 That a wicked person..can ease and take off the punishment..by any external good work done ungraciously, is a piece of new Divinity. 1823 G. Kennedy Father Clement i. 18 Permission was always so unwillingly and so ungraciously given, that it was a penance to ask it. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 227 The treasurer..was induced..to become, unwillingly indeed and ungraciously, an agent in those transactions. 1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 95 ‘I'll do that also,’ grumbled Timothy, somewhat ungraciously. 4. Unbecomingly; with lack of manners, discourteously. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adverb] > unmannerly unmannerlyc1400 unmanneredly1550 ungraciously1736 1736 W. Warburton Alliance Church & State i. v. 51 They are,..I know not why, ungraciously ashamed of their Pedigree. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1784 II. 565 (note) It were to be wished, that he..had not followed the example of Dr. Adam Smith, in ungraciously attacking his venerable Alma Mater, Oxford. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. vi. 163 His ‘fleecy care’ seemed actually to be under the influence of his music, instead of being ungraciously insensible to its melody. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.c1330 |
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