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Quotation dates: 1456-1570
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Ingratitud(e, n. Also: ingratytude. [ME. (1340) and OF. ingratitude, L. ingrātitūdo.]
1. Ungratefulness, ingratitude. 1456 Hay I. 129/27.
Bot gif he commyttit the vice of ingratitude agaynis his naturale lord of the fee a1500 Henr. III. 163/47.
We knaw it is for our ingratitude, That we ar pvnist with this pestillens c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 69/8.
In ingratitude and vnthankfulnes anentis God and man c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4090.
[The Jews,] for thare gret ingratytude Thay leif ȝit vnder seruytude 1570 Satirical Poems xxiv. 9.
The great ingratitude Of cruell catiues
2. An unkindness, a disservice. 1531 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries II. 390.
The communitie … delyuer … that thai wyll nocht gyf that soume of mone … for ingratitudis done be the said Lord Setone to the comunitie of Haidyngton
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