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unˈgenerous, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
1. Not generous or large-minded; illiberal:
a. Of actions, conduct, etc.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii, To start back..from the mixture of any ungenerous and unbeseeming motion. 1699Bentley Phalaris 213, I will not say, how ungenerous a design this is, to leave his Sicilian Prince in the lurch. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xli, I recounted to him the ungenerous usage I had met with from Potion. 1796F. Burney Camilla V. 514 The sense that now breaks in upon me of ungenerous..doubt. 1842W. C. Taylor Anc. Hist. xvii. §9 (ed. 3) 552 An ungenerous attack on the memory of the late emperor. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. ix. 168 She had never harboured an ungenerous thought.
b. Of persons, disposition, etc. Also absol.
a1704T. Brown Eng. Sat. Wks. 1730 I. 25 His ungenerous Father-in-law..discreetly hang'd himself. 1753J. Collier Art Torment. ii. iii. (1757) 141 Bent upon defeating the purposes of ungenerous friends or relations. 1798S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. II. 350 The Duke too, though not a tender parent, had never been an unkind or ungenerous one. 1850Mrs. Browning Sonn. fr. Portuguese ix, Givers of such gifts as mine are, must Be counted with the ungenerous. 1874Mozley Univ. Serm. ix. (1876) 195 An ungenerous temper may be easily fostered under the guise of generous condescension.
†2. Inferior or poor in quality. Obs.—1
1744Phil. Trans. XLIII. 163 A small armed Loadstone..which, being reputed but of an ungenerous Nature, took up..barely 2 Ounces.
Hence unˈgenerousness.
1757E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (1767) I. 94 The poverty of my nature, and ungenerousness of my principles. 1892R. W. Church Cathedral & Univ. Serm. 61 The ungenerousnesses of the generous, the injustices of the just. |