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Webster 1913 Edition
Unthank
Definition 2024
unthank
unthank
English
Noun
unthank (uncountable)
- Lack or absence of thanks or thankfulness; thanklessness; unthankfulness; ill-will.
- 2000, Francis G. Snyder, The Europeanisation of Law:
- It is always by this unthank that things are given to the observer that we pretend to have access to the truth of the word.
- 2000, Francis G. Snyder, The Europeanisation of Law:
- Harm; injury; misfortune.
- Unthank come on his head that bound him so. — Chaucer.
Etymology 2
Verb
unthank (third-person singular simple present unthanks, present participle unthanking, simple past and past participle unthanked)
- (transitive) To recant; unsay, as what has been said by way of acknowledgement.
- (transitive) To undo or withcall one's thankfulness; negate, cancel, or revoke one's thanks.