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unˈgraciously, adv.
[un-1 11; cf. prec.]
†1. With ill fortune; unfortunately, unhappily.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 223 To Chestrefeld ilkon þei com vngratiously. Þe kyng did þam spie.., assailed þam in þe toun. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 193 Eiþer of hem hadde hymself so ungraciousliche, þat me woste nevere wheþer of hem hadde worse spede. 1533Frith Judgem. upon Tracy Wks. (1573) 81/2 And verely the iudgement of this cause came out of season, & euer vngraciously vnto our Canonistes. 1578Chr. Prayers in Priv. Prayers (Parker Soc.) 454 We have learned of thee, how ungraciously [L. infeliciter] we be born of the first Adam.
†b. Injuriously, severely. Obs.
c1450Holland Howlat 840 He cryid: ‘Allace,.. I am vngraciously gorrit, baith guttis and gall!’ c1520Skelton Magnyf. 2270 Some rybbys of the motton be so ranke That they wyll fyre one vngracyously in the flanke.
†2. Gracelessly: wickedly, wrongfully. Obs.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 129 Þis þat with gyle was geten, vngraciouslich is spended. a1400Partonope 6432 ‘Allas,’ þoȝte he, ‘howe vn-gracyously To my loue haue I gouerned me!’ c1520Skelton Magnyf. 2295 And so vngracyously thy dayes thou hast spent, That thou arte not worthy to loke God in the face. 1581Nowell & Day in Confer. i. (1584) F ij, Hee hath most vngratiously broken the vowe made to God in Baptisme. 1645Gataker God's Eye on Israel 44 Tho they ungratiously and ungratefully..demand of him, wherein he had loved them.
3. Not with a good grace; not pleasantly or agreeably.
1664Jer. Taylor Diss. from Popery ii. §4. 99 That a wicked person..can ease and take off the punishment..by any external good work done ungraciously, is a piece of new Divinity. 1823G. Kennedy Father Clement i. 18 Permission was always so unwillingly and so ungraciously given, that it was a penance to ask it. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 227 The treasurer..was induced..to become, unwillingly indeed and ungraciously, an agent in those transactions. 1894H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Rom. 95 ‘I'll do that also,’ grumbled Timothy, somewhat ungraciously.
4. Unbecomingly; with lack of manners, discourteously.
1736Warburton Alliance i. v. 51 They are,..I know not why, ungraciously ashamed of their Pedigree. 1791Boswell Johnson (1904) II. 627 note, It were to be wished, that he..had not followed the example of Dr. Adam Smith in ungraciously attacking his venerable Alma Mater, Oxford. 1829Scott Anne of G. xxix, His ‘fleecy care’ seemed actually to be under the influence of his music, instead of being ungraciously insensible to its melody. |
