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unˈcourteous, a.
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Wanting in courtesy; discourteous: a. Of persons.
α1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 6798 Þys ryche man, as þe gospel seys, Was but to o man vncurteys. a1352Minot in Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 79 Unkind he was and uncurtayse. a1400–50Bk. Curtasye 128 in Babees Bk., Dip not þi thombe þy drynke into, Þou art uncurtayse yf þou hit do. 1470–85Malory Arthur iv. xxiii. 151 Yf syre Pelleas had ben as vncurteis to yow as ye haue ben to hym ye hadde bene a dede knyghte. 1533More Apol. ix. Wks. 865/2 Were not a manne..worthye to bee compted vncourteyse, that woulde [etc.]. 1548Elyot, Inclemens,..vngentil: vncurteis.
β13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 303, I halde þat iueler lyttel to prayse,..& much to blame & vn-cortoyse. 1530Palsgr. 328 Uncourtoyse, ingrat. 1552Huloet, Vncurtoyse, illiberalis.
γ1426Audelay Poems (Percy Soc.) 14 He is unkynd and uncurtes. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 222 Quhasa did the contrair he war ungentill, uncurtas, and un⁓connand. a1500Chester Pl. II. 105 God forbyde that we were So uncurtise to you heare. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 264 b, Hymselfe remained prisoner emong the most uncourtise Silicians. 1575Laneham Let. 41 Yoor only prezens shallbe matter sufficient of abandoning this vncurtess knight.
δ1535Coverdale Bar. iv. 15 An vncurteous people, and of a straunge language. 1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. Pref., If I were as vncurteous as you vnkind, I shuld vtterly refuse to do them any good. 1652J. Taylor (Water P.) Short Relat. Long Journ. (Spenser Soc.) 23 Then most un⁓curteous Mistris, quoth I, I doubt I must bee necessitated to take up my lodging in the Field. 1801Lusignan II. 49 Strangers, you seem not uncourteous. 1858Trollope Dr. Thorne xxxiii, She was more than ordinarily anxious not to appear uncourteous or unkind to him.
b. Of actions, speech, etc.
c1490Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 71, I besech you speake to my master, that no uncurtes dealing be had with none of his servants. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV, 19 He beyng netteled with these uncurteous ye unvertuous prickes & thornes, serched out the authours. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iv. xiii. §10 They ease us of that vncourteous burden. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. v. i. 369 Vpon some stubborne and vn⁓courteous parts We had conceiu'd against him. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxiv, It would be, therefore, uncourteous to leave my readers under any doubt concerning the agency. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 11, ‘I know what I am doing,’ was the uncourteous reply. |