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unˈgentleness
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†1. Lack of good breeding or manners; discourtesy; boorishness. Obs.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. ii (Skeat) l. 132 And therfore, he that wol ben gentil, he mot daunten his flesshe fro vyces that causen ungentilnesse. 1470–85Malory Arthur viii. xxxviii. 332 For your curtosy and gentilness I shewed you vngentilnesse, & that now me repenteth. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. ii. xv. (1536) 150 The whiche forgettynge is as straunge to be in him that serueth, as vngentilnes in the ladye that is serued. a1577Sir T. Smith Commw. Eng. (1609) 131 It is taken for vngentlenes and dishonor,..if any gentleman doe take an other gentlemans seruant [etc.]. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. v. ii. 83 You haue done me much vngentlenesse, To shew the letter that I writ to you.
2. Meanness of birth. rare—0.
1552Huloet, Vngentlenes of bloude, ignobilitas.
3. Harshness, roughness, unkindness.
1548Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. d ij, It was too muche vngentlenes and inhumanitie sure in suche a case too be shewed. 1598Florio, Inhumanita, inhumanitie, vngentlenes. 1623Cockeram ii, Vngentlenes, inclemencie. 1716–20Lett. fr. Mist's Jrnl. (1722) I. 231 There runs through the Male Line an odd Ungentleness of Temper. 1871Smiles Charac. ix. (1876) 240 Their own crossgrained ungentleness. 1889F. C. Kolbe Minnie Caldwell iv. 30 Whatever ungentleness or unkindness she had shown.., had proceeded from thoughtlessness, not ungenerosity. |