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Ungentleness
UNGEN'TLENESS
, n.1.
Want of gentleness; harshness; severity; rudeness.2.
Unkindness; incivility.Definition 2024
ungentleness
ungentleness
English
Noun
ungentleness (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Discourteousness, lack of proper breeding; unchivalrousness.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter lxxvij, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
- A sir palomydes sayd the noble knyghte sire Tristram ar ye suche a knyghte ye haue ben named wronge / For ye haue longe ben called a gentil knyȝt / And as this daye ye haue shewed me grete vngentilnes / For ye hadde al mooste broughte me vnto my dethe
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter lxxvij, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
- Harshness, roughness.