Obs. [UN-1 12. Cf. ON. úkurteisi.] Discourtesy, incivility.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 2058. ‘Mahoun,’ quaþ sche, ‘ȝyue þe schame for þyn oncortesye!’
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 3587. I wole in no wise … Denye that ye haue asked heere; It were to gret uncurtesie.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., II. iii. 151. Thou art to be excusid of vncurtesie bi thi greet folie and madnes.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. cvii. 129. Certaynly cosyn, ye haue done me great vncourtesy, to fight with our ennemyes without me.
1569. Newton, Cicero’s Olde Age, 4. Unbrideled insolencie, and blunt uncurtesie.
1605. 1st Pt. Jeronimo, II. iii. 97. Your wife condemns you of a vncurtesie.
