† uncourtesyn.
Obsolete.
Discourtesy, incivility.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun]
uncourtesyc1380
undebonairtya1400
rudessec1415
ruditya1450
plainness1465
ingratitude1477
ingratuity1528
uncourteousness1530
rudeness?1533
discourtesy1555
inhumanity1557
unrudeness?1562
incivility1612
discourtship1616
unpoliteness1693
discourteousness1727
impolitenessa1773
ungraciousness1836
rudery1869
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2058 ‘Mahoun,’ quaþ sche, ‘ȝyue þe schame for þyn oncortesye!’
c1400 Rom. Rose 3587 I wole in no wise..Denye that ye haue asked heere; It were to gret uncurtesie.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 151 Thou art to be excusid of vncurtesie bi thi greet folie and madnes.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cvii. 129 Certaynly cosyn, ye haue done me great vncourtesy, to fight with our ennemyes without me.
1569 T. Newton tr. Cicero Worthye Bk. Olde Age 4 Unbrideled insolencie, and blunt uncurtesie.
1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. C3 Your wife condemns you of a vncurtesie.
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