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▪ I. unˈgraced, ppl. a.1
(un-1 8.)
1595Daniel Civ. Wars iv. iv, Can England see the best that shee can boast, Ly thus vngract, undeckt, and almost lost? 1603Drayton Bar. Wars iv. lxii, Merit goes vnregarded and vngrac'd. a1618Sylvester Du Bartas ii. Ded. to Essex 14 Daign [thou] to grace my yet vngraced Muse. 1735Thomson Liberty i. 265 Unadorn'd your hills; Ungrac'd your lakes. 1769Churchill Rosciad 884 To epithets [he] allots emphatic state, Whilst principals, ungrac'd, like lacqueys wait. 1867J. Ingelow Story of Doom, etc. 52 Her eyes..looked One moment in the ungraced lover's face. 1889Skrine Mem. Thring 42 The plain, ungraced, ungifted nature, without destiny or distinction.
b. Const. by or with.
1768Woman of Honor I. 60 A woman of honor though ungraced with a coronet in her family. 1781Cowper Table-T. 378 Courage, ungrac'd by these, affronts the skies. 1862H. Aïdé Carr of Carrlyon II. 165, I see..all the deformity ungraced by anything save love.
▪ II. unˈgraced, ppl. a.2
[un-2 4, 8.]
Deprived or stripped of something.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. i. ii, Poore Maria must appeare ungrac't Of the bright fulgor of gloss'd majestie. |