† ingenerousadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Not generous; ungenerous.
a. Of low birth.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lowness of birth > [adjective]
low-bornc1275
ungentlec1374
unnoblea1382
bastardly1552
baseborn1553
ingenerous1621
lowly born1623
earth-born1630
unpedigreed1787
birthless1817
unaristocratic1841
disconnected1847
pedigreeless1859
1621 R. Brathwait Natures Embassie, Beggarie (1877) 43 Sprong of ingenerous bloud.
b. Mean-spirited, dastardly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > wretch > [adjective]
unhappya1400
miserable?c1422
single-soled1588
ingenerous1635
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective]
unkinda1393
uncharitablec1485
incharitable1496
strait-laced1546
ingenerous1635
lean-souled1639
ungenerous1641
mean1665
straitened1712
strait1760
strait-hearted1760
little1766
unmagnanimous1788
narrowing1827
shoddy1918
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells vi. 394 He neither hath like one ingenerous sayd Nor hath a Lybian barbarisme betrayd.
1684 W. Aspin Envious Man's Char. 24 An envious man takes his advantage of doing us a mischief when we are least aware of him,..which is most ingenerous in it self, and most deadly in its effects.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
<
adj.1621