ungrate
English edit
Adjective edit
ungrate (comparative more ungrate, superlative most ungrate)
- (obsolete) displeasing; ungrateful; ingrate
- 1642, Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Raigne of Henry the Third, King of England. Presented to King James., page 91:
- First, the honour of the Kings person was much blemished; for ungrate and ungratious adherents are alway the way to hatred and contempt.
- 1681, Monsieur de Scuddery, translated by James Innes, Les Femmes Illustres or the Heroick Harangues of the illustrious women., page 171:
- Generositie is not compatible with ungratitude, Vice and Vertue cannot be together; And none can be ungrate and thankfull equallie.
- 1697, Samuel Wesley, The Life of Our Blessed Lord&Saviour Jesus Christ, page 165:
- O worst of Wickeds! cruel and ungrate!
- 1697, Nathaniel Lee, Sophonisba, page 12:
- Oh most ungrate! ill-temper'd barb'rous King, No good did ever from this Africk spring.